Facebook, chat, and friend requests

[David Clark]

If you disable this, you all (collectively) can have my firstborn.

- Dave, lurker since 2004.

On Feb 2, 2010, at 9:37 PM, Chris Forsythe wrote:

> Not a fan of them in adium either. +1
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> On Feb 2, 2010, at 8:22 PM, Luke the Hiesterman wrote:
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>> I agree with your assessment. Just because we can doesn't mean we should.
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>> Luke
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>> On Feb 2, 2010, at 6:14 PM, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. wrote:
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>>> I'm inclined to disable friend requests' display entirely for Facebook.  This simply isn't something I would want to manage from Adium, and I often have a friend request or two pending for a long time (e.g. I'm not sure yet if I know the person, I don't want to accept the request yet but I also am not sure I want to actually refuse it, etc.).
>>> 
>>> We've had a number of users report frustration with the repeated requests (repeated because we display the dialogue on each successful connect, and Facebook quietly disconnects and reconnects on a regular basis). Does anyone feel strongly that this in-Adium management is a good thing?
>>> 
>>> -Evan
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David Clark
PhD Candidate, Mathematical Sciences
http://www.mathlab.mtu.edu/~dcclark/
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