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Re: [OM] OT - Facebook

Subject: Re: [OM] OT - Facebook
From: Willie Wonka <alienspecimen@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 18:08:40 -0700 (PDT)
If you read the entire thing below, please reply by saying "uh yeah I read that 
entire thing..."  

Of course, I am joking, John.  Welcome back.  We missed your posts.

Boris

..............................

Your name isn't so unusual as to be globally rare. While a handful of 
them are undoubtedly spam, the great majority are undoubtedly from folks 
who know and are searching for a "John Hudson" somewhere in the 
universe. Unfortunately most of those folks are not selective about who 
they hit the "friend" button or get frustrated with the mondo list "John 
Hudson" returns (tried it, it is a MONDO list). The easiest thing for 
the lame and lazy is blindly hitting the "friend" button as quickly as 
possible on all of them and let the recipients of the emails do the 
filtering.

That's been my experience as my name is not a rare one either. If I 
don't recognize who the person is, I just "Not Now" the friend request 
which hides it. The hidden ones can be viewed and those will have a 
"delete request" button. You can go into (from your Facebook page):
     Account->Account Settings->Notifications

In the first section of email notifications, the second item listed is 
"Adds you as a friend." Uncheck the box and Facebook will not send you 
any emails notifying you of "friend requests" which is what this is 
for.  Why they label it that way is beyond me as it's not patently clear 
what that setting is for. I don't recommend unchecking the others that 
are checked by default. This also means you won't know if someone who 
does know you sends a "friend request" unless you're on Facebook and 
notice a number next to "Friends" on the upper left side. That's the 
number of open "friend requests" that you have not accepted, hidden, 
deleted, etc. If you ignore it complete, that will simply grow, and 
grow, and grow, never shrinking. If you ignore a request from a relative 
or someone who knows you well, that could be perceived as a snub or 
perhaps you're pissed with them for some reason. For that reason I don't 
recommend completely ignoring "friend requests" even if you turn off 
email notifications about them.

You can also limit who can send you a "friend request" to just "friends 
of friends" which means they must already be a "friend" of someone who 
is your "friend."
     Privacy Settings->Connecting on Facebook "View Settings" link->Send 
You Friend Requests (2nd item in list)
Doing that is a pretty restrictive filter. Facebook is a "social 
network" and the "friend request" is a critical to forming the social 
network connections between people who know each other, or want to know 
each other. If you need to "block" a specific person, you can also do 
that in the privacy settings but I would be cautious about blocking a 
name as it will block ***everyone*** with that name and Facebook does 
not enforce unique names on accounts.  There are a bazillion "John 
Hudson" and just as many "John Lind."

-- John

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