Facebook Becomes More Irritating Everyday
Social networking on Facebook comes with its own price. It seems everyday, a new thing is added just to irritate the users.
Ok, your name may be very sexy, having a score of >100 on the so called ’sexy’ scale, maybe your brain feels nice on being rated by an automated algorithm, but please forgive us and don’t ’share’ such a useless statistic with us. OMG, what? You scored a 15 trillion at online pool! Great going douche! That just shows me that you have all the time in the world. And you’ve got to be kidding me, you actually need to create a QUIZ to tell how well your friends know you? You must have some great friends, I say.
Just when Facebook had introduced a new cleaner layout to help people follow their news feed more conveniently, we had a flow in of tons of apps which pulled data (friends list) from your profile to help you spam their notifications with invites to use that app. This is taking the whole viral media fad too far, and has crossed over the line of privacy which any Facebook user deserves. Thank you Ankur Banerjee for introducing me to Facebook Purity, an awesome little Greasemonkey script that removes all the stupid quiz and app notifications from your news feed on the home page.
Another thing is the email notifications. One of your friends tags you in a photo. You haven’t even seen that photo. Now a 100 people go and comment on that photo. You get a flurry of mails which clog your inbox, a separate one for each comment on a photo that you have never seen and was tagged by a friend (so it may not be actually yours at all).
Same with when you chose to ‘Like’ something on Facebook. You liked somebody’s status, and dared to click on the ‘Like’ link? OMG how could you? Now you’ll have to pay the price. You will be irritated to no end by being forced to receive emails on every subsequent comment on that status, irrespective of the fact if its from a person who isn’t your friend.
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puneet on 
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:48 am
You can untag yourself from a photo, and then retag by entering your complete name (do not choose from dropdown list). That way you remain tagged for those who want to know who you are in the photo, but you won’t get notifications for it.
I think that if Facebook offered more granular controls – say an unsubscribe link for that particular conversation thread – then it would be better. By and large I want to receive updates, but if a thread becomes annoying I want the ability to unsubscribe from that thread. Of course, you can turn off notifications completely per feature too.