Today I learned that you cannot block Mark Zuckerberg.According to a Facebook spokesperson, "people trying to block a profile or Page may see an error message if it has been blocked many times within a short period." In other words, the official company line is that Zuckerberg and Chan's profiles may be deluged by Facebook users trying to block them.
That said, when we tried to block a few other pages that seem likely to be experiencing a similar torrent of blocking requests, [spoiler: Trump] we didn't encounter the same problem.
So you can prevent people from blocking you just by being staggeringly unpopular! Sweet!
Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.
Actually, I'm pretty sure there's just a maximum number of people who can block a given page.
WELL ACTUALLY
I can read what the PR flak said in the article too.
It'd be much more sad/amusing if it weren't just some arbitrary engineer decision made a decade ago which is more effort to change than the FB performance review cycle deems worthy to tackle.
You are wrong. It could not be more sad or amusing. Their reasons or post-hoc justifications mean shit.
There are no "technical" or "engineering" decisions on a social network. It's all political.
Jamie, may I (briefly fanboy to) ask that you put that quote in your docs, a peer to the groupware* quote?
"There are no 'technical' or 'engineering' decisions on a social network. It's all political."
*: "Your 'use case' should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?"
K3n.
No, making random edits to a twelve-year-old blog post -- which, incidentally, is one that is usually completely misunderstood and used for evil rather than good -- is not something that I or anyone should be in the habit of doing.
I can't decide. I've seen a lot of dumb things this week, but it may be that this is the dumbest one. You cannot be serious.
You may have deduced by now that what the PR flack says is a lie. Unsurprising, since lying to the public is literally their job.
If that many people hate him, he must be doing something very very right. Therefore preventing people from blocking him is a public service.
Alternatively, if you really want to block Mark Zuckerberg, you could just delete your Facebook account.