Facebook Pet Peeves #1

[lostcarpark]

One thing that bugs me is getting invites to Facebook applications that duplicate existing "default" Facebook applications or widely used ones. I don't need three different apps for keeping track of people's birthdays, or five different walls or a dozen different types of "poke". And I only need one application to keep track of my library, and while Visual Bookshelf isn't from Facebook, it does seem to be the most widely used.

I think Facebook ought to have a more effective policing system for new applications, and part of that policing should include a refusal to allow new applications if they duplicate the functionality of an existing one.

Of course, a second requirement should be to show how they will guarantee that user data will be safeguarded, but that's a topic for an entirely different pet peeve.

Comments

[emmajking.livejournal.com]

Infinite numbers of app invites are, IMO, the bane of fb. Long ago I started hitting the "ignore all invites from this friend" button every time I got an invite. My fb life is now much more tolerable. If lots of my friends start adding a particular app chances are I'll notice it on my news feed, and if someone finds something they really think that I, in particular, would like or should add, I figure they can send me a message about it.