I use Facebook. Most people I know under 30 that I know use it. They have a fairly recent feature on the home page called “People You May Know.” It’s actually quiet a good feature and I’ve used it to find people that I do indeed know, but maybe wouldn’t have thought to connect with otherwise. I do have one caveat with it though. Every day pretty much since it launched, every few times I log in (which is several times a day), I am greeted by the face of an ex-boyfriend from college (who’s name I won’t disclose here, but shouldn’t be that hard to guess). Now, I don’t really mind. I don’t have any ill feelings toward him and I doubt if he has any toward me (his wife used to though…before she was his wife anyway). But I’m not going to be adding him to my friend list anytime soon, and would guess that he’s not going to be adding me either, if for no other reason than to keep said wife from killing him–or me. Okay, I joke about her. I don’t really know her, and don’t know if she would care or not. Just saying that just because we have mutual friends doesn’t mean we want to be friends. Oddly enough, all of our mutual Facebook friends weren’t our friends when were dating. We didn’t even know them at the time and became friends with them separately, after the fact. It’s actually quiet a funny story of how we all kind of collided. You should ask if you don’t know it.
My point here is that Facebook needs to add in some feature so that I can say “don’t show to this person to me in the future,” “don’t show me to this person,” “I don’t know this person,” or “I don’t want to know this person.” You get the picture. I’m not the only person who feels this way either. It’s not just cases for exes either. I mean, it may be an old friend, a co-worker or just plain someone that you know and you don’t like. Just because that person and you have 10 mutual friends, doesn’t mean you want to be Facebook friends with them.
Something Facebook needs to consider. It could be worse for me. It could actually be someone I really disliked a lot and not just an ex-boyfriend from years ago.
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I agree totally. I actually already submitted this already. I want to see NEW faces, not the same ones I don't know.
Well, I just don't want to see certain faces
I did submit it as well though.
So today on my homepage where it shows three of the people I might know, their is now a little X to click if you don't want it to show that face. I don't know if it eliminates that person for good or not. When you click to get a more complete list, their are no X's. So,not sure what's up, but something is happening.