aw, weaksauce. Facebook has been punking me for idk how long. thought i was being super generous and allowing new random people onto my friends list (as i do) by hitting “Confirm” in my drop-down, but mid-click realized the blue box in one of them didn’t say “Confirm” – it says “Add Friend”. wtfudge? bah – it’s a friend SUGGESTION. not a request…
So…i’m not being gracious and accepting someone asking to be friends… im sending out a request without knowing it. -very shrewd, Facebook. but you’re an asshole.
Luckily i stopped that mid-click one by sliding the cursor off the button before releasing my finger from the mouse-click. blurg.
This latest one was a guy, but this makes me paranoid now, wondering how many females i’ve done this with who think I was requesting them when I thought I was adding them.
No idea what is in it for Facebook to be doing this. They actively discourage users from requesting people they don’t know in real life and will block you for 7 to 30 days if their algorithms decide that you’ve been friending too many people you don’t actually know. So what the H?
fkkn hell, Facebook… not cool.
UPDATE: I’m not the only one getting screwed by this feature…
Facebook’s automatic efforts to connect users through “friends” they may know recently led two Washington women to find out they were married to the same man, at the same time.
That led to the man, corrections officer Alan L. O’Neill, being slapped with bigamy charges.
According to charging documents filed Thursday, O’Neill married a woman in 2001, moved out in 2009, changed his name and remarried without divorcing her. The first wife first noticed O’Neill had moved on to another woman when Facebook suggested the friendship connection to wife No. 2 under the “People You May Know” feature.
“Wife No. 1 went to wife No. 2’s page and saw a picture of her and her husband with a wedding cake,” Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist told The Associated Press.
that’s what he said, ha.