Sometimes on the internet I see an person that I want to know better. Most of the time today this happens on Facebook, sometimes on MySpace (but I don’t go there often, too confusing interface that they have). But there is an problem with my way of meeting new people online. That problem is Facebook and there way of controlling what people I want to befriend on Facebook. Because soon as you start to send friend requests to people how you have no common friend with. You get an threat like this.
I find this quite unfriendly of Facebook to threaten this. As the number of friend request to total strangers are less then 10 pr month for me.
This is also the reason why Facebook is going to fail in about 5 to 10 years time. This is given that Facebook behaviour is not going to change in that. But I currently doubt that, as the founder of an company normally set it’s principal it works on.
In the case of Facebook it the principle of greed and control that rule the day on Facebook. It is not about connecting people as it is set by Mark Zuckerberg and the other people (wiki) how did start Facebook.
The fact is simple. Facebook is quite unfriendly web site, even if it claims to be an web site to meet friends and meet new people. As Facebook is making sure that you don’t meet new people. Because when you try to do so, they claim that you are spamming and threaten to block your ability to become friends with new people on Facebook.
When something better then Facebook appears on the internet. It is going to replace it. As Facebook replaced MySpace and MySpace did replace the social web site before it. It is an old and well known history.