Meaningless Facebook requests?

Have you considered making your Facebook account more private?

”...maybe we were born in the same hospital on the same day and they just want to re-connect.” LOL.

How about a setting for “don’t send me cows, hearts, or mafia requests”

@Spinel It’s not so much of a privacy issue; I wouldn’t put anything on FB that I’d be ashamed for my Mom or Janet Napolitano to see, I just want a way of letting technology deal with these interlopers instead of me having to “confirm” them only to find out our sole compatibility is that we both like bacon.

@filmfann Your Friend just took the quiz; “Which salt water aquarium pH stabilizer are you?”

@rhodes54 I see. That would be a great suggestion to run by the Facebook team.

Why don’t you just make it so that people don’t find you in search, then?

@rhodes54 I know! They said I was Kordon, and I so thought I was Hagen!

@AnonymousGirl B-b-but how will that hot cheerleader with the dimples from Junior High School who never looked my way ever FIND me after all these years to “friend” me and see what a loser I’ve become?

@rhodes54 As other people have said, make it harder for people to find you. If you only allow people to see you that are in the same networks that you are, random people won’t find you. You have the answer a couple of times already. Go use it.

@Spinel: Ha! I think the “facebook team” only exists to laugh at users and do the opposite of what they request. Conversely, it seems that facebook users exist solely to complain about every tiny change ever made to facebook and constantly petition to bring the latest “old” facebook back.

@La_chica_gomela I see. Well the cup was half full…

@avvooooooo Ah…networks. Hadn’t thought of that.

Of course, living in Austin TX, you can’t throw an endangered salamander around here without hitting someone who’s “in a band and there’s this indie label that’s like TOTALLY into us!” And THOSE guys don’t have a “network” anymore than there is a “network” for “actual working musicians and their loser friends’ circles”

Thus, I have no way of telling (without FIRST confirming so I can see their profile) whether someone is truly a worthy “friend” (e.g. some producer or I did a session with, some other player I met on a wedding gig, the kid who cut my yard and we discussed Mellotrons, etc ) -all of whose names I may have forgotten

OR

they’re just some guy who read in Tape-Op that the best way to get people to come to their awesome CD release was to send friend requests to EVERYONE in town. Sure, his profile picture may show someone sitting at a vintage Ludwig kit or strumming a worn out ‘58 Tele, but that’s not enough information until it’s too late.

So no, I didn’t really get the answer I was looking for a few times already.

OK, now I’m just being cranky and argumentative cuz it’s late. I apologize.

@rhodes54 “And THOSE guys don’t have a “network” anymore than there is a “network” for “actual working musicians and their loser friends’ circles”” Then they’re not in yours. And can’t search you. So there.

@avvooooooo But I WANT that second hypothetical network to be able to search for me. Maybe I’m missing something here. No, CLEARLY I am…

@rhodes54 If you’re going to make yourself very easy to find, then there’s no need to complain about random people adding you. I get random people adding me, too. It’s not that hard to deny their friend requests. Even if you accept them, you can still remove them from your friends list after adding them and finding out you don’t want them on your list. That’s not a rude thing to do at all. Besides, some of those random people are interesting. I just went through my list deleting random people off my Facebook yesterday and it turned out one of them was my friend’s dad and I didn’t even know it. Maybe he added me because I have most of his children on my Facebook. Maybe one of his children added me to his Facebook. Who knows?