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Update: Facebook’s new hire Blake Ross reports in the comments that this is a bug and will be fixed. If only Facebook’s bugs were as amusing as MySpace’s.
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Argh. Facebook just removed the option to “Skip this Step” when adding a friend: you now have to state what your relationship is with that person before you can connect, then wait for them to confirm that relationship.
No doubt it’s concerned with Facebook’s aim to connect you to real life friends, but it’s also super, super annoying when you have a big backlog of requests.
Anyone else find this ultra-annoying? Leave a comment below; perhaps enough complaints can get this reversed.
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Only heavy Facebook users will be interested in this post.
Lots of bloggers are complaining about the fact that Facebook has removed the “skip this step” option when asked for how you know a person while accepting them as a new friend. The “bug” appeared over the weekend.
First of all, it probably is a bug and will be fixed, but there is an easy way to sidestep it. Just hit “Cancel” and it has the exact same effect as hitting “skip this step” used to have. You don’t have to figure out the right way to say how you know the person from the very limited options. Just hit cancel. Trust me, when you go to your profile the person has been added as a friend.
What everyone seems to have missed here though is the fact that late last week Facebook removed the whole page redirect every time you add a friend and replaced it with the pop-up box. Not a big deal for most people, but I tend to add a lot of friends (I have over 1,200), and the few seconds it took to confirm each one with multiple page refreshes was a huge pain. Now the whole process is down to a second. Huge productivity gains, and Facebook sacrificed page views to give us this feature. Golf clap for Facebook.
Update: bug is gone. skip this step is back. everyone chill.
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PayPerPost, the site that pays people to write about certain products and services on their blogs, has launched a Facebook application. For now, its functionality is limited: it lists Marketplace Opportunities, lists the subjects you’ve written about and (mainly) acts as an affiliate advertisement to put on your Facebook profile and make money when your referrals sign up.
Coupled with the Facebook news feed, however, PPP could potentially become an annoyance on Facebook. You can imagine a scenario in which people could be paid for writing on Facebook blogs, posting certain Facebook apps to their profiles or (worse) filling the News Feed with commercial information like ads. It’s a risk that also increases as more Facebook ad networks spring up: hopefully Facebookers will disown friends that use such services. If not, Facebook itself may need guidelines about what constitutes excessive “feed spam”.
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