Before I left my previous job, I was coerced into joining Facebook. The promise was that it would let me keep up to date with all my former colleages and friends at my old job.
Since day one, I’ve pretty much been regretting the decision. Most of the issue comes down to the fact that Facebook has no way of actually stopping people from sending “invites” to add whatever the current fad-application is.
Many folks don’t see it as a problem, and don’t remove your name from the list of people to spam when sending out one of these invites. The result is that when I log into Facebook, I see a half-dozen or more Invites.
Because I can’t use the Facebook interface to block these, I’ve gone ahead and just simply started removing and blocking folks that do this.
This, to some, is considered an outright hostile act. Sorry folks, but I really don’t give a damn whether you’re “Interested”, or want to know what Simpsons character I am.
Until the time when Facebook lets me block all application invites, I’ll be continuing the remove-and-block tactic.
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Yeah, I hear ya. Unfortunately Facebook has only recently added an “Ignore all” function for invites. I’d imagine it’d take them some time before they even implement a blocking one as well.
February 10th, 2008 at 8:48 am. Permalink.
I was thinking about something very similar last week actually. I like you was asked to sign up to face book by friends at work and as soon as I do I started getting a torrent of invite spam. I’m used to spam so I was fairly happy ignoring it. Except….
I saw one of the invites and though hey, I’ll do because I was bored, I did the test and then to get the results it says “invite 15 people” to this my answer was hell no, I don’t expect I’ll be logging back onto face book any time soon.
February 10th, 2008 at 1:04 pm. Permalink.