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If any Facebook employees are reading this, there's a really annoying "feature" that will show a list of suggested friends to add to a private group. I've accid
by wufufufu 8y ago
If any Facebook employees are reading this, there's a really annoying "feature" that will show a list of suggested friends to add to a private group. I've accidentally added people to private groups by accidentally clicking a single time while scrolling.
Imagine being in an AA group or HIV support group and adding your coworker to it on accident.
Please change this.
- eecks 8y agoIt's disappointing to see stuff like this. It means that the decision makers don't dogfood their own features.
- JustSomeNobody 8y agoOr that their tiny bubble doesn’t know enough about the real world to be careful with things like this.
- raverbashing 8y agoYes. See also: Google
- wlesieutre 8y agoGoogle Buzz was a much worse disaster for similar reasons. https://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/technology/1012/gallery.5_data_breaches/4.html https://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/technology/1012/gallery...
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- bastawhiz 8y agoOr they do dogfood, but the (flawed) engagement numbers support their next promo case.
- eecks 8y agoZuckerberg has been joining groups recently so I am sure he'll fix it if he sees it as an issue.
- pcr0 8y agoPlaying devil's advocate, I've found the feature useful for meme pages and university groups. However, I think they should add another tap to the process as it's too easy to send accidental invites on mobile.
- emiliobumachar 8y agoAlternative: keep it one tap, but hold it for a couple minutes while an "undo" option is visible. Possibly also a "confirm" option for those in a hurry.
- leetcrew 8y agothis seems like a simple and effective solution. a one to five minute delay on a group invite does not seem like a terrible inconvenience.
- dymk 8y agoIt's really easy to complain about this, but it's very hard to actually come up with a solution. Did you have any suggestions how cases like this could be detected?
- phalangion 8y agoMaybe make it a two-step process to add people to a group. Sure, show the list of friends to suggest, but make the "adding friends" page separate, so if you accidentally click, you're still a step away from adding someone.
- DINKDINK 8y agoProduct people are going to hate that friction, just add an undo invite button
- bertjk 8y agoThat would work until another product person decides to eliminate the friction of "accept invitation" and adds an auto-accept invitation feature
- dathinab 8y agoOr better allow people to mark groups as more private (lets call it sensitive) and only if done so have a two-step process to add people and possible other changes.
- themarkn 8y agoJust jumping in here, but if detecting accidental triggering of irreversible actions is a challenge, maybe the overall approach is problematic. You could, though, temporarily introduce a confirmation step and see what % of users choose to cancel rather than confirm their invitations or something like that. The chance of a random tap on a face that Facebook (not the user) chose to put on a screen seems to guarantee there will be some accidental invitations no matter what, since accidental taps happen.
- hateful 8y ago
- Scoundreller 8y agoPossibly FB’s algo thinks they are alcoholics or have HIV and would like the group? Anyway, it should be easy to block that element client-side.
- qwerty456127 8y agoThe whole Facebook friendship stuff is a disaster.
- aviv 8y agoNothing is on Facebook by pure chance. This feature is there because it was designed to be.
- amelius 8y agoPerhaps it even tells you something about your coworkers ...