I'm starting to see a two cases of Facebook spam that Facebook will need to address. This seems critical to me, since a very similar issue is one of the things that's led me grow to hate MySpace over time.

First, I've been getting repeated friend invitations from people who are overly aggressive business networkers. The kind of people who think quantity is as important as quality when it comes to networking.

Second, I'm getting repeated invitations to join groups. In some cases, they're groups where I've previously been a member but decided the group wasn't right for me. After leaving, I'm apparently considered a prospect for joining the group again, so the invites start coming in.


It seems like the friend request confirmation process needs a 3rd option beyond confirm or ignore that allows users to block future requests. That would give me the control I'm looking for to manage my relationships properly.

The group invite problem could be addressed when leaving groups. A checkbox saying, "Been there. Done that." which creates a "not interested" status for a specific group would clean this up nicely.