Facebook Needs…
I try not to be too negative, but Facebook needs a block requests from this person button now. They have, supposedly, a do not like button so it makes sense to do this as the next move. Yeah, I agree, that they already have the block this application as a drop down and that is much appreciated, but that is not what I am talking about. I have about a dozen, loosely defined friends who are constantly asking me join this cause or become a fan of that.
You would think after I blatantly or on purposed selected ignore about thirty times that the general idea would be getting there. But the same people will invite me to be a fan of the same thing over and over and over. It will occur about every three to four days, and while I really do not care so much, it does get old after a point. After all, I get an email on it, as I think things like invites for most of my friends are worthy of actually seeing a heads up that I would likely blank out in Facebook for days.
But then when I actually do get into Facebook, I have to physically go to the request page – and click ignore on it. I do that, as I just generally do not like clutter. But then as soon as I do that, I know it is only going to be 24-48 hours before the same invite shows back up. What a pain in the behind end that can be at various times.
I am thinking something like a button the wall, where you can ignore a friends constant dribble that gets posted there. Lets face it, sometimes some friends just don’t know when to stop. Heck, I admit I am probably in that category with a few friends myself – since I acknowledge that I use Facebook to drive some amount of traffic to my various sites. But instead of stopping the postings to the wall, instead a button that says stop any requests from this friend for this category. Maybe the category is fan pages, maybe it is causes, maybe it just videos, and god forbid that anyone wants to use it on me, maybe it just links (oh, wait, those go to the wall – not a request).
Actually, maybe Facebook should actually take the initiative. I would not necessarily like Facebook doing it for me, as that just goes against my nature. But maybe if I ignore a request from the same person three times it should pop up an option to block all further request. Actually, an even better version and one that I would not mind Facebook doing for me – if I ignore and refuse the same request to join a fan page, group, event etc three times, it automatically limits any future request from that same item to me in the future.
Facebook are you listening? This is an excellent idea from a users experience.
** – image from idea storm & Facebook, is idea storm an app on Facebook?
