Facebook Consolidates Request Notifications
Posted by Nick O'Neill on December 18th, 2007 10:48 AM
Facebook has finally consolidated their requests notifications. This has been something that many people had been calling for. A few months ago I wrote about request overload and the problems of having hundreds of application requests. While the average user may not have hundreds of requests, they do have tens and that has become a problem. As a result, Facebook has decided to consolidate those requests to make each user’s homepage more clear.
This is a great move by Facebook but developers may not be as satisfied with this update. Rather than showing all application requests, it now displays the most recent request. This is a huge relief for me but then again, now my requests page will only get more filled up. Thanks to Leora Zellman for giving me the heads up. Do you think this was a good idea to consolidate the requests?
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December 18th, 2007 at 11:05 am
I like the change.
It keeps the main home screen clean.
With all the application requests. It was getting too cluttered for me.
December 18th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
I like the change.
It keeps the main home screen clean.
With all the application requests. It was getting too cluttered for me.
December 18th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Whoa. You have 227 FB friend request.
December 18th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
This is an excellent move, and long overdue. A constant complaint I heard from people was the clutter of all the requests coming in. There was an animosity building towards the entire platform simply because people were sick of being bombarded by these requests. If the requests aren't seen as such a nuisance anymore, it will help build more goodwill toward the platform…or so I think.
December 18th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Whoa. You have 227 FB friend request.
December 18th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
This is an excellent move, and long overdue. A constant complaint I heard from people was the clutter of all the requests coming in. There was an animosity building towards the entire platform simply because people were sick of being bombarded by these requests. If the requests aren’t seen as such a nuisance anymore, it will help build more goodwill toward the platform…or so I think.
December 18th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
I don't see why developers would be upset by this. I see no reason a priori why this would negatively impact their invite conversion rate.
Think about what's happening: I see I have “10 requests” but I have no idea what. Maybe they're useful, maybe they're not. So I click and scan the list.
Now I'm in a situation where I'm evaluating requests one-by-one in the expanded form. So, e.g., I might see my best friend invited me to some app. Before I'd just see the app until I clicked through, now I don't see even see that.
December 18th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
I don’t see why developers would be upset by this. I see no reason a priori why this would negatively impact their invite conversion rate.
Think about what’s happening: I see I have “10 requests” but I have no idea what. Maybe they’re useful, maybe they’re not. So I click and scan the list.
Now I’m in a situation where I’m evaluating requests one-by-one in the expanded form. So, e.g., I might see my best friend invited me to some app. Before I’d just see the app until I clicked through, now I don’t see even see that.
December 20th, 2007 at 5:14 am
Mike, I added ''the friends'' application…that s great!
December 20th, 2007 at 6:14 am
Mike, I added ”the friends” application…that s great!