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> and rather provide some constructive criticism Sure, from a more-or-less former-user perspective: -Facebook should stop abusing the notification system. Try
by cgriswald 8y ago
> and rather provide some constructive criticism
Sure, from a more-or-less former-user perspective:
-Facebook should stop abusing the notification system. Try enabling it. It kind of sucks. You expect notifications about X, but they also give you notifications that are X-like-ish-kinda-if-you-squint-but-really-Y. Now try not using Facebook for a few days. Facebook will act like a 15-year-old who didn't hear from bae for 2 hours. It's a seemingly nonstop deluge of notifications about people and things you probably don't care about. Did you know my mom's cousin just made a post? Neither did I. I also didn't care. I don't even think my mom cares. I was surprised we were even FB friends. I haven't seen her since her wedding 30 years ago.
-Friend suggestions are generally useless. Facebook doesn't seem to have figured out that if my aunt, uncle, and my cousins are friends with someone but not friends with anyone else in our family, that they are either a family friend or a relative from the other side of the family. Sure, I might be friends with that person, but this makes up a huge portion of my suggestions, and it's always useless.
-Friend suggestions are also creepy. I will start a new class with a woman I've never seen before in it. We will not exchange numbers or email. We will share no phone numbers. We might have different majors. We have no mutual friends. We will generally not interact or possibly she will flirt. Time will go by. My (unusual) last name will appear in print. Then I will get a friend suggestion. If I were single it would be great to know which girls are looking me up, I guess...?
-The interface is noisy and designed to get me to engage more with Facebook, but it's so off-putting I can't stand to be on it for long. Literally half my browser window gets ignored. Less is more. "Games Your Friends Play", "Instant Games", "Games"... and then right next to it in the chat component, "Instant Games","Your Games". I don't even play games on FB. The ones I have linked to Facebook are all phone apps which coincidentally I could (but don't) also play on FB.
I could go on, but meh.