Facebook: The place to name and shame your friends

One of the features that the facebook people have added really bothers me. It is the feature that if you type a name of one of your friends into you status, facebook will put a link to that persons profile in your status, thereby advertising you to the world (or at least all of the friends of this one person).

That bothered me enough, but today I think I have seen the worst case of name-linkin on facebook.

Naming and shaming! That’s right, if it wasn’t bad enough to air your dirty laundry on facebook, you can now provide a direct link to the object of your disapproval. Have a look at this example below and then think about where it will go next…

I think it should give links for every word to fan pages or anything remotley realted. For example ‘Kristian Brimble thinks sporks are cool’ and then this would link you to the spork fan page. Good idea? Didn’t think so.