Please don’t take it personally when I don’t respond to your friend request. I never really used the site, but for a while I would at least accept incoming friend requests. Then, with a number of unattended-to requests already piled up, I got a request from someone who I decidedly did not want to be friends with. At that point I decided not to bother with it any more.
So you won’t be getting friended, which is no big deal since I don’t do anything on the damn site. Please rest assured that I think you’re lovely, and that the odds of you being the person who drove me entirely off Facebook are quite low — though non-zero! It’s in my best interest to keep you guessing, working hard to earn my fondness. If nothing else I figure this calculated withholding of affection is good practice for one day being a parent.
Speaking of which, is there a way to delete one’s Facebook account?
Not to steal from the title of your previous post, but I like to refer to this “friend in waiting” period as purgatory.
and it’s easy to deactivate your account – just click on Account in the top right. It’s the last section on that page. Whether or not that deletes your data from countless federal databases is another question.
Hey, the one thing that Facebook has is a strong social graph with huge buy-in from the connected community.
I wonder if the Facebook API is limited to running applications within the site only.
It would be great if someone could create a site that reads in your facebook account data and then boils it down to:
1) Status Updates
2) Wall postings
3) Directly sent inbox messeges
Present that in a timeline, and voila, you have the facebook equivalent of twitter.