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Latest Features on Facebook Irritates Users
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 25 October 2011, 23:10 IST
Bangalore: Facebook is struggling hard to keep its users stick to it. But the tough competition by Google+ and Twitter is forcing the leading social networking site to surprise its users almost every day with more new features and makeovers. Though Facebook wants its members to enjoy the digital experience, the users seem to be very confused with new features which are resulting into a lot of anger among them.
This latest addition features sending friend request on its own, which users are not ready to deal with. The users are not happy because this application sends request to even those people whom they wish to ignore. Users feel that this new innovation done by Facebook is intruding their privacy and their personal choices and they want this feature to be discarded right away.
A technology blogger, Nik Cubrilovic affirmed that this might be a way to up their revenue. He said, "Verified email addresses sell for 20c to one dollar each so if they are able to extract 100,000 verified email addresses from Facebook that is probably worth upwards of 20,000 dollars to spammers". People can never tolerate someone else making picks for them on their behalf. Users want Facebook to go for makeovers only if it can benefit their needs or they should not try at all. They feel that this is a breach of personal choices and should be stopped.
The other sites like Twitter and Google+ are trying to strengthen their position at the social networking scene, so there is want for Facebook to work according to the needs and preferences of people, other than making its own applications make choices for them. This is the only way in which it can keep up its position.