After the ignore all requests bookmarklet became extremely popular over the weekend, it appears that Facebook immediately decided to implement it themselves. Once you have over 25 requests, an “Ignore all requests” option shows up in your sidebar. There is an additional alert that Orli Yakuel has posted to her Flickr account. This new feature was definitely needed as I already have over 87 application requests. The next step is for Facebook to add a feature that enables me to group approve or reject all friend requests.
This new feature will surely save me a ton of time by easily cleaning up my application requests. For application developers this could be yet another barrier against the viral distribution of applications. When the platform first launched, a number of applications which have now become the top applications took advantage of no barrier to growth and no limitation on invites, news feed postings or anything else.
Since then, Facebook has slowly turned up the spam protection and some have grown increasingly concerned about Facebook satisfying users over the developers who’s goal is to get as many users to their application as possible. Are you glad that they implemented this new feature?
![[Inside Social Apps 2012]](http://www.allfacebook.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/allfacebook2/images/ISA2012_336x100_F_RegisterNow.gif)
![[AllFacebook Stats: Facebook Analytics for Your Business]](http://www.allfacebook.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/allfacebook2/images/stpro_allfacebookstats.gif)
![[How can Facebook change your business?]](http://www.allfacebook.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/allfacebook2/images/FMB_A_MAY2011_336x100_F.gif)
Facebook has to make the user experience as positive as possible. It isn't about "favouring users over developers" at all, it annoys me when developers say this. In any kind of longer term, Facebook has to get its users to come back again and again, and that means making their experience as positive as possible, otherwise they'll go elsewhere. So in the end a good user experience is beneficial to both users and developers.Developers of decent applications realise this already.Your previous article about whether social networks are getting boring would surely back this up. Sometimes I think twice about coming to Facebook because I know that using it is as about fun as sorting my spam folder.
Comment by David — January 30, 2008 @ 1:49 pm
Facebook has to make the user experience as positive as possible. It isn't about "favouring users over developers" at all, it annoys me when developers say this. In any kind of longer term, Facebook has to get its users to come back again and again, and that means making their experience as positive as possible, otherwise they'll go elsewhere. So in the end a good user experience is beneficial to both users and developers.
Developers of decent applications realise this already.
Your previous article about whether social networks are getting boring would surely back this up. Sometimes I think twice about coming to Facebook because I know that using it is as about fun as sorting my spam folder.
Comment by David — January 30, 2008 @ 2:49 pm
They should add this option even if you have "only" 5,10,15 requests…
Comment by tenoch — January 31, 2008 @ 1:35 am
I think we're all excited to have this feature.
Comment by Justin Thorp — January 31, 2008 @ 3:53 am
Hallelujiah! Oddly, I was just chatting to one of my friends who works at Facebook yesterday about this very topic – I must be 1 day too impatient.Next up there need a way to block individual people from sending you app requests – with 450 friends, I still only have 3 or 4 serial requesters. I don't want to remove them, but I'd love to be able to stop those people alone from sending me app requests.
Comment by Henry Elliss — January 31, 2008 @ 4:52 am
Hallelujiah! Oddly, I was just chatting to one of my friends who works at Facebook yesterday about this very topic – I must be 1 day too impatient.
Next up there need a way to block individual people from sending you app requests – with 450 friends, I still only have 3 or 4 serial requesters. I don't want to remove them, but I'd love to be able to stop those people alone from sending me app requests.
Comment by Henry Elliss — January 31, 2008 @ 5:52 am
They should add this option even if you have “only” 5,10,15 requests…
Comment by tenoch — January 31, 2008 @ 5:35 am
I think we’re all excited to have this feature.
Comment by Justin Thorp — January 31, 2008 @ 7:53 am