A friend of mine has had her Facebook account for several years now. She opened one after receiving requests from other friends to join them. She also had a MySpace account at the time. Mind you, she wasn't on either regularly back then because she found other things more interesting than playing some random game or poking friends.
Yes, Facebook got its start as a gaming platform. All those friend requests to play one game or another? That was how Facebook began. Between Vampires vs. Werewolves, before Twilight and Pirates vs. Ninjas to Vampire Wars and Farm Town, some members have been playing their games and sending said requests to friends since before they were able to leave more than short messages on a friend's wall.
Why did I start ranting about this particular subject? My friend regularly plays certain games. She also regularly ignores her notifications and game requests unless she decides she wants the headache of trying to deal with thousands of requests. Some games are easier to keep from sending requests to friends who don't play the game than others, but it's actually relatively easy to keep from seeing said requests...It's called Hide All Posts From [enter name of game here.]
She just happened to be going through her wall posts, something she rarely does or ever really did. One of her friends wrote a post "threatening" to remove friends who keep sending her game requests. She then asked if said friend forgot that Facebook started out as games, not a media outlet for the depressing shit that keeps appearing on walls or for fandoms to reach out globally to each other.
While it started out as a gaming platform, it has changed. Events and news stories are commonly pushing aside the games and it seems as though even though the games want to try to keep relevant they demand too many friends that play the same game and expect players to spend a majority of time playing the game. If someone spends more time removing friends because of game requests than taking the time to remove said game from their accepted notifications list, then perhaps they aren't spending enough time in the real world catching up on other things.
What do you think? Should someone be removed from a friends list just because ssaid friend is receiving game requests from them?
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