Breaking up, as Neil Sedaka told us back in the day, is hard to do. And it's even harder nowadays, thanks to social media. After a break-up, the last thing you need to see is your ex's mug on your Facebook feed every day.

There's an easy solution, of course: just unfriend or block them. But if you're trying to remain friendly, Facebook has your back.

The social network on Thursday announced some new tools to help you manage how you interact with your ex once things are no longer "Facebook official." Now, when you change your relationship status to single, Facebook will give you the option to see less of your former partner's name and profile photo without having to unfriend or block them.

This means their posts won't show up in your feed, and their name won't be suggested when you write a new message or tag friends in photos. It'll almost be like they never existed at all!

You can also limit what your ex can see about you on Facebook, or keep your privacy settings just as they are. If you select the former option, your ex will only see the posts you've specifically tagged them in, shared publicly, or shared on mutual friends' Timelines.

Finally, Facebook will also now let you easily untag yourself in all posts that include your ex, so you don't have to manually go through each of your photos one by one.

Facebook just started testing these tools today, and they're only available to those in the U.S. on mobile devices, but Zuckerberg and Co. plan to roll them out more broadly in the future, based on people's feedback.

The new tools come after Facebook earlier this month updated On This Day to let you filter out memories from a certain person (including your ex) as well as specific dates or date ranges.