Comments on: Facebook foolishness

By: Paul Evans

Paul Evans — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:53:30 +0000

I notice that you cleared your friend requests before doing the screengrab. I usually have half-a-dozen pending because I’ve got a bad memory for everyone I meet. I offended someone once when I binned their request (the pic didn’t look like them and I didn’t remember their name). Now I don’t click ‘ignore’ for a while just in case I remember….

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:53:41 +0000

This is exactly why I prefer Twitter to Facebook, I just can’t stand all the requests, become a pirate, etc. Twitter’s much more relevant and best of all, quick.

By: David Hughes

David Hughes — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:18:01 +0000

It’s this kind of silliness that made me scale back my use of Facebook. I’ve set my options so as not to get this kind of invitation and so had thought it had decreased but clearly not…

Mind you I suspect you have many more friends than I on Facebook.

By: Dan Thornton

Dan Thornton — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:47:34 +0000

I’ve ended up with a status message telling people that I don’t want to add applications unless they’re useful…stemmed the tide slightly, but not a lot.

The problem seems to come from a lot of family members and friends who have just joined Facebook and are caught up in the enthusiasm of something new…