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Re: Facebook Recommends Reconnecting with Ex-Lovers, Dead Friends

bpmsweet — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:46:00 -0000

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Re: Facebook Recommends Reconnecting with Ex-Lovers, Dead Friends

drodrey — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:57:59 -0000

Facebook keeps recommending i reconnect with a guy who died about a month ago. I wasn't that good friend with him, so I'm not particularly upset, but imagine how much it would suck if his girlfriend of sister got that.

Re: Facebook Recommends Reconnecting with Ex-Lovers, Dead Friends

Richard — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:01:38 -0000

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Seriously you Facebook people have no clue how stupid you all look to the rest of us.
Here's a fun game you won't find on facebook. Type the word 'facebook' into google news occasionally. You might learn something.

Re: Facebook Recommends Reconnecting with Ex-Lovers, Dead Friends

SaharrRRRAAA — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:14:40 -0000

I want people to reconnect with me because THEY want too not because facebook told them too!!!
It makes people out to be the pathetic friend you need to "help"

Re: Facebook Recommends Reconnecting with Ex-Lovers, Dead Friends

donnie — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:48:03 -0000

very unfortunate

Re: Facebook Recommends Reconnecting with Ex-Lovers, Dead Friends

calebgalaraga — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:57:16 -0000

Hi Monika, still hasn't seen it. Anyhow, it's not that important. Just curious about all this reconnect thing.

Re: Facebook Recommends Reconnecting with Ex-Lovers, Dead Friends

raymond8505 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:15:48 -0000

once they get the special dead people profile settings going, they can tweak the reconnect stuff not to suggest that.

Re: Facebook Recommends Reconnecting with Ex-Lovers, Dead Friends

nsummy — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:05:51 -0000

I fail to see what the big deal is. If you really do not want to message someone or are so mortified that facebook suggests you reconnect with an ex, why are you even friends with him or her?

If there is one thing I've learned by being on twitter, its that people will bitch about any little thing. It all snowballs & if one person complains about something others will piggyback on their statement. No on cares. Facebook is a social media site, heaven forbid it attempts to get people to communicate instead of just lurking.

Re: Facebook Recommends Reconnecting with Ex-Lovers, Dead Friends

Name — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:25:15 -0000

Actually, first I was annoyed by these suggestions, but now I like them because they prompt me to realize a bunch of dead wood exists in my friends list -- I see a suggestion, then go and remove them as a friend. Never would have remembered they are even in my friends list -- thanks Facebook!

Re: Facebook Recommends Reconnecting with Ex-Lovers, Dead Friends

jaucremann — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:10:12 -0000

Actually, Facebook does have a system in place where the deceased's family and/or friends can report their death so that their profile can be "memorialized".
They just posted a note to remind everyone of this function. http://blog.facebook.com/bl...

Re: Facebook Recommends Reconnecting with Ex-Lovers, Dead Friends

chrishoskins — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:53:46 -0000

Fair enough that it's a bit insensitive to be recommended to reconnect with a friend who has passed away. But to be fair, how is facebook supposed to know they have passed away? And ex-lovers? If you don't want to maintain a relationship with them as friends then why on earth are you friends with them on facebook? surely the point of friends on facebook is that it is a group of people you want to connect with? no? Is it just me?

Re: Facebook Recommends Reconnecting with Ex-Lovers, Dead Friends

Ash — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:33:41 -0000

If people don't want to "reconnect" with their exs why the hell do they have them as Facebook friends??!

Re: Facebook Recommends Reconnecting with Ex-Lovers, Dead Friends

milkfish — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:21:19 -0000

Perhaps it could score some points in certain quarters by advising people to reconnect with the God of their youth, Who is probably on Facebook. Repent!

Re: Facebook Recommends Reconnecting with Ex-Lovers, Dead Friends

@Edw3rd — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:07:21 -0000

Do you really think it was well intentioned?

I think they are simply trying to goose their active user numbers.

Re: Facebook Recommends Reconnecting with Ex-Lovers, Dead Friends

Liz — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:43:26 -0000

I think it's a nice feature. There are actually friends, in the 34873948753 that everyone claims to have on Facebook, that you may not have spoken to in a while. They get lost in the numbers.

Re: Facebook Recommends Reconnecting with Ex-Lovers, Dead Friends

iTbay — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:34:23 -0000

ouch

Re: Facebook Recommends Reconnecting with Ex-Lovers, Dead Friends

John Rosenfelder — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:02:53 -0000

good example of the structure of the web not adding up on the aesthetic-cultural side.

Re: Facebook Recommends Reconnecting with Ex-Lovers, Dead Friends

People Search — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:58:08 -0000

Maybe trying to get you to reconnect with dead friends is Facebook's social network version of Paranormal Activity for Halloween.

Re: Facebook Recommends Reconnecting with Ex-Lovers, Dead Friends

Rob K — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:33:00 -0000

This happened to me. FB recommended I connect with me deceased mother, with whom I share no friends and very few common traits. I blogged about it here http://bit.ly/2eBSIQ

Re: Facebook Recommends Reconnecting with Ex-Lovers, Dead Friends

burningfp — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:17:35 -0000

Been thinking about leaving Facebook for a while now, it always feels like I'm playing a game to someone elses rules. Things like this do not help..

Re: Facebook Recommends Reconnecting with Ex-Lovers, Dead Friends

Σχολή Χορού — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:39:52 -0000

OK these things happen. My opinion about Facebook changes intact.

Re: Facebook Recommends Reconnecting with Ex-Lovers, Dead Friends

advocatus — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:31:51 -0000

I'm not referring to the exact two problems mentioned in the article. The issues I was talking about are:
1). Repeatedly suggesting the same friend half-a-dozen times (in a row), even when I click the x.
2). Suggesting completely random people that have like 6 friends, and none of them are mutual.

Re: Facebook Recommends Reconnecting with Ex-Lovers, Dead Friends

Michèle Ménard — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:00:38 -0000

Same thing happened to me. A friend of mine is in hospital since July, after a car accident: you bet I want to reconnect with him!

Re: Facebook Recommends Reconnecting with Ex-Lovers, Dead Friends

Wardell — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:43:38 -0000

I get where they where going with the idea but I think they should rebrand the feature, instead of telling people they should reconnect , which does seem a little invasive in pushy. Maybe a simple list of friends names who have actually logged onto the site in the last month would do the trick.

Re: Facebook Recommends Reconnecting with Ex-Lovers, Dead Friends

ws — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:00:54 -0000

what's all the fuss about? i can't imagine Facebook having a "Dead" or "Died Recently" as a Status option. who would change em anyway? they're simply asking us to reconnect with Facebook friends (from our list) whom we obviously haven't kept in touch with for a while. they wouldn't know who has passed away or if that person was your ex or whatever. quit blaming FB for everything and every changes they make cause you know you can't live without FB (or rather the apps). no matter how sucky / awesome the changes may be, we're all still stucked to FB. :)