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The "Friends you might know feature", and Facebooks reaction to people saying they don't know you.
This morning when I logged into Facebook, Facebook informed me that a few of my friend requests didn't know me, and that I needed to agree that it was a violation of terms of use to friend request someone I don't know, and I needed to click a box and agree that I understand that. And then they directed me to some page about community standards, instead of taking me to my home page.
What an annoyance and distraction from going and posting the news item that I wanted to post on my wall.
I sent this to facebook:
 | I'm insulted by the suggestion that because a few people I friend requested may have said that they didn't know me, that I need to be slapped on the wrist and be reminded of "Facebook community standards".
I've tried to be very careful and only friend people who I am sure I know. Who said they didn't know me? Why am I given no opportunity to respond to the evidence for your accusation? How about focus on fixing your broken site! For example, your "people you might know" feature suggests scads and scads of people I do not know. And there is no obvious way for me to remove them so that I dont keep seeing them every time you show me this feature. If I accidentally click a friend request on one of them that I would have happily removed if only you would allow me to do that, how is that my fault? Your people search feature is really stupid too, I have almost never found a friend I know through that. I have even sat with friends who are not computer experts, and had them try to direct me to their account. We couldn't find their account because there were too many other people listed with the same name, and there was no good way to narrow things down further. Your search by location only allows locations you know, and doesn't allow things like a state without a city, etc.. About the only effective way to find new friends is to browse the friend lists of people I am already a friend with.... But your suggesting people I might know is seriously stupid in that I have no way to get rid of the people I dont know. so every time I go look at that, I have to look through pages and pages of people I already decided I dont know. Doing that over and over has the effect of making me start to wonder if I know them. I then look at the friend in common between us, and I realized I dont know a single friend of "so-and-so", so I couldn't possibly know this friend. Thanks, but no thanks, Facebook, keep your baseless accusation algorithms to yourself.... |