Facebook Wants to Know If I'm Hot. Or Something.
Facebook is attempting to reduce the app invite clutter by consolidating all those zombie, vampire, and duck hunting requests into a single link. I never accept any app requests, mostly because I just haven’t had time yet to figure out how being a zombie really adds value to my life, so the requests have just been sitting there, mocking me and my inability to recognize the usefulness of having an entourage.
It’s nice of them to simplify things for me, but I found the request they decided to promote somewhat interesting.
Huh. Three “You’re Hot Requests”. Not three people saying I’m hot, or three people asking if they’re hot, but it seems like Facebook is asking me if I think I’m hot. Three times.
I can expand the requests and see what else I’m being asked to do. Here’s just a snippet:
I also have two “hotness” requests, which are apparently entirely different, as well as all kinds of requests that I have no idea what to do with. I’m totally doing that ink’d one though. We all could use more tattoos.




And I was JUST about to send you a friends request. Bummer.
j/k of course.
The most recent requests from a platform application show up on top…
http://www.facebook.com/developers/message.php#msg_139
Argh. These app invites are the thing I hate most about Facebook. They are so annoying. And for me, this actually makes it more annoying, because I feel like I need to click through to see what invites I have, so I’m not missing something important (as if). I’d rather have them all on the front page so I can ignore them without worry.
I must point out that even though I find app invites annoying, and they are the thing I hate most about Facebook, I like them better than almost everything about Myspace…
The “very clean” user interface that made Facebook a popular alternative to Myspace is quickly being tarted up and ruined by ads and vapid apps. I wonder how long FaceBook will last?
My list has gotten bigger. I feel your pain.
Vanessa – I’m not touchin’ the ‘hotness request’
. I think overwhelming requests like this could cause a lot of us to re-join Facebook under ‘not real names’ which would defeat the purpose? They need to impliment filters where each of us can decide what shows and what doesn’t. Maybe then we can concentrate on ‘friends’ and take the time to check them and make an easy decision on whether to accept them or not. Charlie
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 20, 2007…
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web…….
I’ve been on MySpace for about two years now but just got active (well, sort of active) on Facebook this week. It’s totally different than MySpace. It’s professional. You talk about adult things. The profiles are useful. Yeah, there are some annoyances but it is 100 times better than MySpace.
Will I drop MySpace? Nah. That is my ‘wild side’ the side I don’t yet share with the business world in fear of losing all credibility.
P.S. I feel really special I actually got accepted as a friend from you considering the number of invites!! Which reminds me, I have another domain name suggestion for you . . . vanessaunfiltered.com
Wow, you’ve really got it bad. I tend to delete them as I go so never really get above a dozen or so.
One of the things I liked about facebook was it allowed me to reconnect with people I knew in high school and had since fallen out of contact with. As time passes I realise there was a reason for this lack of contact with many of them being directionless layabouts with nothing better to do than spread these pointless apps.
Consider that my bitchiness quota fulfilled for the day.