No matter how private Facebook may appear and how much you want to keep friends with your age old friends. Some of the users are always looking forward to make new friends. You can have many reasons as to why you rejected someone’s request: Spam, abuse already with the latest reason which says that you don’t know one.
While to many it might sound just like any other reason to turn down a request it actually helps you in the long run. How? I remember that I used to get multiple requests from three or four people times and again and no matter how many times they were turned down, one of them was bound to make the same request again. With this new option, it makes sure that Facebook blocks all future requests from this person. That in short means the reduction in the countless spam requests that keep hurling into your notifications.
I am not sure what exactly happens when you select that option and this is primarily for a test to limit the countless requests. While this is quite a useful move, I personally think Facebook needs to do something about the apps that populate its platform. Seriously it’s very annoying to get a million requests now and then for Farmville or Mafia Wars. Other than that on the longer run, it might actually help Facebook label certain profiles as regular spammers if they have been marked by a lot of users.
