Attack of the Facebook invitations
Do you ever feel like you are drowning? I do. I am drowning in a sea of Facebook invitations and requests. Over 200 of them.
Each day I think "tomorrow I'm going to clean up my invitations". Tomorrow never comes. And then more come. When I add more friends, more invitations come.
Because I think of other people's sanities, I refuse to invite friends to ANYTHING. But I guess others do not feel the same way... sigh.
Just like the bottomless pits of junk inboxes, I know even if I manage to delete away all my invitations this time, I will just get more and more and more the next time. This is a new form of SPAM.
So what is the solution? Either I warn my 350+ friends to stop sending me invitations or I start restricting my friends list. I don't want to do the latter so perhaps the former? But who would ever remember "Amy does not want invitations" when they are eagerly adding that brand new "Which friend is hotter" application? No one. So maybe I'll just let it be until the next social networking website comes along :) heeeeeee.
Each day I think "tomorrow I'm going to clean up my invitations". Tomorrow never comes. And then more come. When I add more friends, more invitations come.
Because I think of other people's sanities, I refuse to invite friends to ANYTHING. But I guess others do not feel the same way... sigh.
Just like the bottomless pits of junk inboxes, I know even if I manage to delete away all my invitations this time, I will just get more and more and more the next time. This is a new form of SPAM.
So what is the solution? Either I warn my 350+ friends to stop sending me invitations or I start restricting my friends list. I don't want to do the latter so perhaps the former? But who would ever remember "Amy does not want invitations" when they are eagerly adding that brand new "Which friend is hotter" application? No one. So maybe I'll just let it be until the next social networking website comes along :) heeeeeee.
posted by Amy at 8:53 AM
7 Comments:
Play chess with me! you know you want to!
You can "Ignore all" thats what I do when it gets too much! :)
Lets start an anti-invitation movement...we could invite all our friends ;-)
Westy - if you send me an invitation on FB, I won't play =P haha
Nikita - same answer to Edris, I bet they added this after hearing alll of the complaints. why do I only see it after I feel defeated? :(
Aine - while we're at it, let's design an anti-invitation application ;) bit like anti-spam filters mwahaha
I'm pretty sure that per every application you can edit the settings and set it in a way that that application does not send notifications to your email. Every notification has a link to where you can disable email notifications.
Oh - I know this sooo well.
I have the even harder case of currently having a growing 140 friend requests which I cannot just ignore if I want to stay "on the line".
Bit sick world.
Or is it?
Haha~ just dump the invites... Less the friends' requests. :P
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