The spamming friend requests became a problem after they took away the information that it was supposed to be only for people you had met in real life. I think you should be able to report “spamming” profiles like that. I loved being able to 1. visit friends of friends to know who I can trust enough to go see (since I trust my friends judgements) 2. Have friends easily accessible.
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If someone adds you as a friend and you don’t know them, please report the person and include the note “this person added me as a friend but I don’t know who they are”. This will help us to identify people who are abusing the friend feature.
At the same time, messaging needs to be fixed so you can message anyone (some people might be adding people as a friend just so they can message them). Also, I think we need to remind people that they should only be adding people as friends if they are actually friends with them. Right now there is no notification or guidelines that say that.
Do you think it would be helpful to have people confirm they actually know the person before adding them? So when you click to add someone as a friend, then it would say something like:
You should only add someone as a friend if you are actually friends with them.
Are you really friends with this person?
Yes / No
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I don’t have that much of a problem with it, and I feel too many reminders about the site rules aren’t very good. This one is no big deal after all, you just don’t add the people you don’t want to add. I was just explaining why I don’t want messages to work the way they work now.
Also, I sent a friend request to a girl in a nearby city yesterday because I loved her profile. Don’t ban me, please😂 I don’t think it should be that strict, especially now, while it’s still not too many people, and it feels like a big family (and we still can’t send messages directly, and don’t have a “favourite” feature)
And should you really be able to report a person just for sending a friend request? They haven’t done anything wrong per se
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I think it’s only justified to ban someone for a friend request if we can produce evidence that they are doing it frequently or seem to be doing it haphazardly or something like that.
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Well, yeah, if there is such evidence, I agree
“Is this a person you know and are friends with?” Yes/No might work better. I would love people having to agree that they actually know someone, or even better know them “IRL” (In real life) before adding them as friends.
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