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This caught my eye: "Facebook as a product doesn’t encourage you to add strangers as friends" Yes, it does?? I don't do it, but every time I go there, it has

by vba616 5y ago

This caught my eye: "Facebook as a product doesn’t encourage you to add strangers as friends" Yes, it does?? I don't do it, but every time I go there, it has a list of people who are either friends of friends or strangers that it's suggesting I add. Perhaps there are people in the bowels of Facebook that are smitten with the concept of combinatorial explosion and have been thinking for years "any day now..."

strken 5y ago
It does on a superficial level ("here's a list of five people with buttons next to their names"), but it doesn't do it effectively. You're more likely to end up befriending a stranger using Tinder, or playing video games, or trying to pick up a new hobby, but Facebook doesn't enable those interactions very well.
- vba616 5y ago
  >Facebook doesn't enable those interactions very well I never looked to FB to enable making friends, I was dragged onto it because people I did meet elsewhere prefer to use it. So I don't know either how it's supposed to work or how it does work. A weird (to me, probably not to a FB employee) thing that happened after my previous comment was... I clicked on the "show me less" option next to "people you might know" (because it has been showing me former co-workers, who are fine people, but not friends, and I don't want them to be). Then it collapses, but like three items down in the feed, there is a duplicate with the same people!
loceng 5y ago
It also, along with Instagram, allows or supports fishing and hacking attempts from accounts and doesn't remove them - or most recently an account I reported on IG got an automated "review response" that due to too many reports they're not reviewing my report. How we don't have laws requiring businesses do the minimum to keep users of their platforms relatively safe really highlights the inefficient-stagnant state of governance we're in in the west.

by vba616 5y ago

strken 5y ago

It does on a superficial level ("here's a list of five people with buttons next to their names"), but it doesn't do it effectively. You're more likely to end up befriending a stranger using Tinder, or playing video games, or trying to pick up a new hobby, but Facebook doesn't enable those interactions very well.

vba616 5y ago
>Facebook doesn't enable those interactions very well I never looked to FB to enable making friends, I was dragged onto it because people I did meet elsewhere prefer to use it. So I don't know either how it's supposed to work or how it does work. A weird (to me, probably not to a FB employee) thing that happened after my previous comment was... I clicked on the "show me less" option next to "people you might know" (because it has been showing me former co-workers, who are fine people, but not friends, and I don't want them to be). Then it collapses, but like three items down in the feed, there is a duplicate with the same people!

loceng 5y ago

It also, along with Instagram, allows or supports fishing and hacking attempts from accounts and doesn't remove them - or most recently an account I reported on IG got an automated "review response" that due to too many reports they're not reviewing my report. How we don't have laws requiring businesses do the minimum to keep users of their platforms relatively safe really highlights the inefficient-stagnant state of governance we're in in the west.