Facebook Should Listen To Social Fixer When It Comes To New Features

If you’re on Facebook a lot, you’ve likely discovered Social Fixer and its myriad options to take control of your News Feed. If not, you should check it out after reading this post, because beyond offering a suite of nifty (and necessary) options to organize your stream, its creator, Matt Kruse, posts some great social insight on his blog.

SocialFixerBlogLogo650If you’re on Facebook a lot, you’ve likely discovered Social Fixer and its myriad options to take control of your News Feed. If not, you should check it out after reading this post, because beyond offering a suite of nifty (and necessary) options to organize your stream, its creator, Matt Kruse, posts some great social insight on his blog.

People have many gripes about Facebook. Some are justified, but many just aren’t. It’s free, after all, folks!

But justified or not, there is room for improvement – and here are three suggestions from Kruse that I agree with wholeheartedly:

Passive Friend Requests

Have you ever seen someone on Facebook who you know, kind of, and you’d like to connect, but it’s too awkward to reach out (particularly when you can’t be sure if they’re one of those “this weirdo I hardly know just friend requested me!” types)? Well, passive friend requests would remedy that.

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