Re:Facebook now informs the sender if you've read their message
by peteretep on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @03:47AM
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Sounds like quite the opposite. If I sent you a message, and saw there was no read receipt, I'll assume you haven't logged in. Without it, I assume you read it and didn't reply...
Re:Facebook now informs the sender if you've read their message
by msg on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @01:27PM
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Like I said, people have different expectations. You can also see when people are logged into Facebook because they are available to chat with. How would you react if they were logged in but you didn't have a read receipt? Or there was a receipt but they didn't respond?
Anyhow, this is all just proving the point. Read receipts introduce a piece of "evidence" that is bound to be misinterpreted. So I don't like them and they're yet another feature hostile to some customers in Facebook.
People have different expectations when using this software. I think I've logged on once in the past 6 months. A heavy user who sends me a message and expects, but does not see, a read receipt may think I'm deliberately giving them the cold shoulder.
I want the freedom to not respond or read in privacy. Let them think it was spam filtered or lost in the shuffle.
Yet another reason Facebook is not for me.