{"id":14,"date":"2009-12-16T05:52:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T05:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.124.246\/~wisecon1\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2009-12-16T05:52:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T05:52:53","slug":"has-anyone-noticed-that-facebooks-suggestions-are-becoming-more-aggressive-perhaps-their-new-tagline-could-be-facebook-yo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Gets Pushy with Friend Coaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span>Has anyone noticed that Facebook&#39;s suggestions are becoming more aggressive?<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span> Perhaps their new tagline could be &quot;Facebook, your digital friend coach: We help you find friends, provide guidance on how to connect with them and never let you forget a birthday.&quot;&#0160; Sometimes the reminders have a sad quality about them.&#0160; Today, I was prompted to help a friend find more friends&#8211;is there something that triggers this prompt?&#0160; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tedbongiovanni.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834208b9953ef0128765a37d6970c-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"FriendSuggestions\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834208b9953ef0128765a37d6970c \" src=\"http:\/\/tedbongiovanni.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834208b9953ef0128765a37d6970c-800wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"FriendSuggestions\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tedbongiovanni.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834208b9953ef0128765a37f7970c-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SuggestionsDetail\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834208b9953ef0128765a37f7970c \" src=\"http:\/\/tedbongiovanni.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834208b9953ef0128765a37f7970c-800wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"SuggestionsDetail\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tedbongiovanni.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834208b9953ef0128765a37f7970c-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><br \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tedbongiovanni.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834208b9953ef0128765a37d6970c-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><br \/><\/a><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Then there are the paternal reminders, &quot;you haven&#39;t spoken with Jack in a while, send him a message,&quot;&#0160; Forget that Jack used to taunt me about my height in high school, &quot;Hey Jack, what up bro?&quot;&#0160;&#0160; And then there&#39;s the seamlessly unlimited supply of friend suggestions, and despite how inane they are, I can&#39;t resist clicking on them.&#0160; I wrote earlier on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisecontradictions.com\/2008\/04\/the-five-phases.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"From Love, to Acceptance\">Five Phases of Facebook<\/a>, and I&#39;m still at acceptance.&#0160; I am grateful for friends tagging good reads, sharing reactions to the season finale of Dexter, or encouraging folks to support health care reform, or same sex marriage, but I remain perplexed by the stream of quizzes, and Farmville updates.&#0160; I&#39;m also struck by the conversations that start here.&#0160; My college consitutional law classmate debating with my Parisian neighbor out here in the &#39;burbs. &#0160; Facebook, where worlds collide. &#0160;&#0160; How&#39;s your Facebook experience these days?&#0160; Love it?&#0160; Hate it?&#0160; Can&#39;t imagine life without it?&#0160;&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone noticed that Facebook&#8217;s suggestions are becoming more aggressive?FriendSuggestions<br \/>\nPerhaps their new tagline could be &#8220;Facebook, your digital friend coach: We help you find friends, provide guidance on how to connect with them and never let you forget a birthday.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,27,8],"tags":[28,29],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-tech","category-webtech","tag-facebook","tag-social-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}