Facebook is one of the most prominent social network on the Internet and Facebook team is always busy in working to facilitate its users by introducing new features although all of them are not too good but still they are committed. Now we have the news that Facebook is testing a new feature these days that is “Mark you don’t know” feature. Here’s how it works, have you ever received a friend request from a person whom you don’t want in your friend list and you simply ignore his/her request and forget about it, then after some days the same person requests you again thinking that you would add him/her this time and this gets annoying when you receive such requests often.
So Facebook has come up with a feature by using which Once you mark “ignore” on a friend request, you’ll see a new option in addition to being able to report the person for abuse or spam: “Mark that you don’t know” them.
As we know that Facebook does inform you whether the person you sent request has rejected so people don’t get the hint and send multiple requests to the person who they want to add without knowing that they have been rejected. The new feature will allow you to block friend requests from such persons. Like the long-time option of blocking all application notifications from a friend, it’s another way to reduce the social spam generated by poor etiquette on social networks.
This is what a Facebook spokesman said about the new feature
“Our security team is currently just testing this feature to help inform certain limits on friend requests and combat spam,”
This feature would be helpful in saving Facebook from spammers and scammer who due to large no of users target Facebook for their unlawful activities. this points to another use for the “mark you don’t know.” If used by enough people, it could help alert Facebook to problem profiles early on before they can cause too much damage.
