As someone who is constantly on Facebook for work, I manage to quite easily stay on top of any requests or notifications that come my way. I had assumed that this was the case with everyone, but had recently started to notice that a lot of my friends were piling up notifications and messages due to the fact that most of the time they’re invitations to applications that someone was forced to send or messages from groups that nobody cares about.

These are very similar to the reasons why most people abandoned Myspace, the endless friend requests from fake users.

Today Facebook took a step towards keeping it’s userbase happy, adding an ‘Ignore All’ button for users that have more than 25 notifications. I can’t help but think this pretty much defeats the object of having notifications, and seems to assume that all notifications are spam, but at least it shows that they are working on something to fight this problem. I think a more relevant solution would be to block applications from forcing users to invite 20 friends before using an application instead, but we’ll see where this one goes.

Via allfacebook