Facebook, chat, and friend requests

[Chris Forsythe]

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On Feb 2, 2010, at 8:38 PM, David Clark wrote:

> If you disable this, you all (collectively) can have my firstborn.
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> - Dave, lurker since 2004.
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> On Feb 2, 2010, at 9:37 PM, Chris Forsythe wrote:
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>> 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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