I recently signed up for a dodgeball account. You know, ’cause I’m such a social butterfly. One neat feature is the ability to secretly disable friends.

Not that I have more friends than I can handle or fall out with the ones I do have, but I can imagine the convenience. In the rough and tumble world of personal relationships, sometimes you’d rather not say no nor broadcast a new-found hatred.

Flickr could use this. Like, what if you added a mass murderer to your contacts. Unfortunately, he won’t stop posting photos of victims, and you’re all like, “Gross.” But you don’t dare remove him as a buddy, because then he’ll come after you.