According to Robert Scoble, Facebook launches new features every Tuesday. This morning, they launched a new feature that shows how many mutual friends we have when you request my friendship. As our speaker Rodney Rumford writes:
This might seem like a very small change, but it makes a huge difference to me & millions of other facebook users. Now when you see a friend request, you can instantly see how many common friends you have. With 1 click you can see which mutual friends you have. This small change greatly enhances usability. This makes it very efficient for determining if you run in the same circles. It is also a way to separate out people that run in a circle where you care not to associate yourself.
In the past, when I received a friend request, I usually wanted to see a message from the person showing how we knew one another. Requests that came in without messages were usually seen as more suspicious. I investigated the requesters — and our mutual friends — before accepting the request.
Now, Facebook provides me with that information right within the friend request notification. I still like context, to be sure. Notes are just polite, especially if you’ve never met in real life. But if I have 40 friends in common with someone, it now seems less necessary to do a whole lot of poking around before accepting a friend request.
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