Increasingly frequently I am seeing that application developers (in the online and network desktop applications) are trying to make sure that users do not know who is and who is not blocking them. The 2 key applications that I use that this happens in are MSN and Facebook. These are both particularly frustrating because invariably if someone blocks me it’s because they want to push me away in some way, and to be frank if they want to push me away I want to know.
Now, it may seem a little selfish or vain that I want to know that they’re doing so but it really is not the case. I would suggest that if they are pushing me away I should know because the last thing I want to do is go chasing them up via email thinking that your app has failed on me when they’ve actually just blocked me. On top of this if the email goes ignored I’m going to continue emailing until I get a reply because I don’t know that my email hasn’t failed. Interesting, both of those happen with amazing regularity! Admittedly (and I know this will appear in comments) it may be that I should know if they’ve blocked me or not by the way I was acting, but sometimes I just don’t read situations well enough to understand that I’ve done something to upset them, and I would put an example here but that person is still blocking me and I really don’t want to annoy them!
Now that you’ve read this hopefully you’ll understand why it’s important to let people know when they’ve been blocked, however I hope that I will get some other views in the comments too!
Thanks,
Ben
Firstly, let her go man. You’ll spend the rest of your days chasing up on lost causes. Blanked at bars.
You get cock blocked at a bar, do you follow her all the way up to Supermac’s to find out why you didn’t make the grade? nah you put your game face on and find an uglier bird who you know you have a better chance with.
Same applies in your case here.
Life is full of people who don’t want to interact or for whatever reason aren’t arsed with other people.
It’s not me, it’s you.