After my freak out last week about the flaming awful Facebook mobile app experience, I thought my ire towards Facebook may have been buried for a while. How I was wrong…
Pain in the Ass ‘Top Friends’ Notifications
Last Monday my iPhone started receiving push notifications via Facebook along the lines of:
- John Smith added a new photo
- Dave McDave made a new comment
- Joe Bloggs liked a post
These notifications had a stupid little star icon beside them. They were new and about as welcome as a vindaloo powered fart in a space suit. I only have notifications firing through to my phone if one of my Facebook pals does something that is directly related to me. Other than that, I don’t need to stalk their every move.
The Typical Facebook Lack of Choice
Perhaps I’m being over-sensitive, but it really annoyed me that Facebook had decided that these notifications would just randomly start to be sent, with no opt-in or prior warning. I decided to try and turn them off. Within iOS, the setting for many apps are accessed via the ‘general settings’ menu on the phone itself, not within the actual app. This is indeed the case with Facebook, however, there is no option for turning this particular type of push notification off within this swathe of settings. No, you need to go into the app, to a second set of settings (main menu>settings>Facebook notifications>Push notifications) and untick ‘Top Friend Activity’
That will stop them coming through to your phone. It all just pangs (again) of Facebook’s disregard for the wishes of users. It really wouldn’t be that difficult for Facebook to improve its user communications and make grumpy folks like me a little bit happier. Google are doing this very well with Plus. Shame none of my friends are on it…
You may wish to tell me I am being a little over-sensitive, let off some Facebook related steam, or even just say hello and tell me to calm down and reduce my amount of grey hairs. Whatever you wish to do, the comments section below is yours to play with…
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