Comments on: My wish list for Facebook

By: comaimai

comaimai — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:29:04 +0000

yes that would be cool, but i think they will get there since fb developers are always looking for new ways to make it better and more interactive. R Mapquest Driving Directions

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:32:09 +0000

I wish you could set FB to notify you by email when someone comments on something you have commented on, but does NOT notify you when someone comments on something you "liked." This would tune down spam a lot for me!

Also, if you're truly OCD, the edges of the textbox I'm typing in right now are being cut off.

By: Jesse Stay

Jesse Stay — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:58:44 +0000

My main concerns are all on the platform, as to me that's where the money is and where businesses are most likely to integrate.

Regarding the e-mails, I don't think that's too big an issue. I don't want sites to be pulling my details from Facebook unless they explicitly have my permission to do so. Enabling a site to pull details by e-mail address is asking for a whole load of trouble – especially for spammers that already have these lists of e-mail addresses. I'm glad they ask for users permission, and when you do have the permission you have full access to all their profile data and can do with it as you please, on your own website even in a Facebook Connect environment.

By: Josh Fraser

Josh Fraser — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:40:13 +0000

You could create an extra feed on your blog that only contains links, or perhaps a 2 sentence summary. You could then import that feed into Facebook instead of the full one.

But I should warn you, changing the feed probably won't solve the issue of split comments. I often tweet links to my blog posts and half the time people reply inside Facebook instead of on my blog. I wish there was a way to fix that, but it feels like it would probably require integrations between Facebook and IntenseDebate / Disqus / WP / blogger, etc

By: Josh Fraser

Josh Fraser — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:33:25 +0000

I can't believe I forgot that one. That's huge.

By: Josh Fraser

Josh Fraser — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:29:42 +0000

That page you linked so seems to be only for platform related issues, instead of general suggestions like this for facebook.com. I'm sure they have some sort of general feedback page, but I couldn't find it.

Facebook does offer a friend-linking feature which lets you send a list of hashed email addresses and then show your users who they know on facebook. This sounds great, but they only show that information inside a facebook iframe. You can't actually get access to that data yourself. EventVue would love to be able to show the facebook profiles for everyone attending a conference, but we can't do that unless we can get every attendee to manually Connect their account.

http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Lin...

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:01:15 +0000

Great list! The message stuff annoys me especially too. Some of these will never happen, but I wish…

There was a simple way to import links to my blog posts into my newsfeed. The current import feature imports my posts as notes, which doesn't drive traffic to my blog and creates two sets of comments. I also when people comment on links to my blog posts in my news feed, their comments could somehow appear on my blog as well. If only someone would write a simple app like this (hint… hint…)

I wish I could have an RSS feed of my news feed.

Maybe something where you could post your location and check your friend's locations so you know when they're in town?

That's all I can think of for now…

By: Adam S

Adam S — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:26:34 +0000

I wish there was an easy way to remove myself from group message threads. Getting spammed by a group message that people send to all their fb friends (eg. “I lost my phone need all your numbers!” or “anybody looking for a subletter?”) is annoying to begin with, but the more frustrating part is that FB makes replying to the group the default option and replying only to the sender hard to find. The result is that you involuntarily get stuck in a message chain with no ability to “unsubscribe”.

By: Jesse Stay

Jesse Stay — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:52:14 +0000

I use bugs.developers.facebook.com as my wishlist – not sure if this shows up or not: http://bugs.developers.facebook.com/buglist.cgi?b...

The last one on your wishlist should be possible. You send them a hashed list of e-mail addresses and they return you the Facebook ID for each one of those hashed addresses.