Facebook's 'Ask' Button Allows Friends to Bug You About Being Single
LatestApparently, Facebook really really really really really wants to know who you’re fucking. The social network has introduced an annoying new feature it’s calling the “ASK button” which will allow your nosy friends to, with the click of a mouse, directly ask you about the relationship status that you have deliberately not filled out. In my day, if we had questions about a Facebook friend’s relationship status, we clicked through all of their tagged photos and formulated elaborate theories about whether or not the girl he has his arm around is just a friend or a sex-friend under the cover of darkness like normal, mature adults.
Business Insider’s Caroline Moss tried it out, and it’s just about as annoying as a person might expect. The ASK button (which could easily be called the “Annoy” button, or the “Bug” button) appears to the right of a person’s relationship status on their Facebook profile, but only if they haven’t indicated a relationship status. If you click it, a small window opens with a text field for explaining what in the world of fuck possessed you to request someone’s relationship status on Facebook rather than just texting them. Here’s what it looks like when I bother my roommate about it.