Well, this is interesting. Facebook just did the strangest thing. <\/p>\n
I have a friend who has not been on Facebook very long and for most of that time did not actually use it. Then, I became aware that it was his birthday, so I wished him a happy birthday on his Facebook wall. Then, I noticed that he suddenly had about 200 friends where before he had almost none.<\/p>\n
My friend lives in another country and is part of a community that historically has not had a lot of Facebook involvement, but on looking at the list of friends, I saw many individuals that I know in real life, some quite well some much more casually, from that community, which appear to be emerging from the non-Facebook world. These are people I’d like to have as my Facebook friends, and that I happen to have actually met, and in some cases, have known for decades. <\/p>\n
So I Friended a bunch of them … remember, these are actual people I’ve met in real life and know … and Facebook’s reaction was to log me off, then when I logged back on, to scold me and block me from friending anyone else. <\/p>\n
I was also forced to withdraw all the requests I had made that morning. <\/p>\n
So, Facebook just made me waste time … not much time, true, but not their prerogative. It also told me that it knows better than I do whom I know, which it does not. It also once again demonstrated that it (Facebook) does not actually know how people who actually use it are actually using it. Many of my “Facebook friend” are not my meatspace friends, and many of my “Facebook friends” have similarly non-meatspace “Facebook friends.” Not everyone who uses Facebook has Facebook-only friends, but frankly, most do. Facebook also generated an absurdity; I was actually in the middle of doing what they seem to at least pretend is what everyone is supposed to do on Facebook and summarily stopped me from doing it. How strange. <\/p>\n
Do you think that the people who run Facebook actually don’t know what we are doing here? Are they pretending to not have a clue or are they truly clueless? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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