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Facebook Questionnaire, share any feedback you have about your FB experience?
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So far I've come up with 5:
1. The system of dealing with people for the 'supposed' offense of adding too many people is needlessly draconian. I would suggest basing it on asking people if they feel in any way 'harrassed' by requests rather than on mere numbers. Failing that, how about some sort of warning that a limit is being approached?
2. Why does there have to be a limit to the number of friends you can have or the number of people you can follow?
3. It shouldn't be possible to be added to a group without your express say-so
4. It should be possible to do a blanket block on being sent apps, none of which are of the remotest interest to me
5. The statuses that show in one's newsfeed are 'randomly selective' with many more items showing in the far less easy-to-follow 'ticker feed' in the right hand margin. Why can members not decide for themselves what shows in the main feed?
I'd be interested to know people's thoughts on the above and any further points you'd add?It would be great to have an FAQ area with answers to points raised in this questionnaire. Is that a possibility??
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This is already possible - look under App Settings and then make sure Platform is set to off.
2. The top limit is probably based on the way your freinds list is stored. There also needs to be a method of detecting you in case you show the behviour of a bot that is randomly harvesting contacts with a view to spamming them later on, or simply farming their contact details for other forms of attack. (This also fits into point 1.)
3. Agree, you should get a group request in the same way you get a friend request "<name> has asked you to join <group> do you want this?"
4. See above.
5. Because this is the way that brings your eyes to the adverts and featured stories. Remember with facebook YOU ARE NOT THE CUSTOMER - you are the product. Why would facebook make things the way you want them - you're not paying them! Facebook's customers are the advertisers; they sell the ads with the promise that they will make you look at them.
Many thanks for taking the time and trouble!
Can I like pages without having my preferences broadcast to the world?
I'm not interested in announcing to the world what I like so is there a setting that enables me to turn that off, especially the new 'feature' which actually posts in people's newsfeeds "Matty likes Mongolian Nose Flutes" and "Morris Dancing"??
I'm sure I'm not alone in this one!
If you could find out how it knows that you like those things, it might be possible to work out a way of stopping it.
I'm sure its possible, as I think I did that the other day as part of a mammoth session ramping up my privacy on it. They blinking hide options everywhere, they can even use your photos to advertise if you don't turn the option off! :mad: (not with mine they can't though, have knocked that completely on the head!)
The only true way to stop facebook knowing these things is to not use it at all.
At first that may sound flippant, but it isn't really - I said that because everything you do on facebook is recorded and builds up these things.