Because it’s no longer iMessage, but SMS. The other phones are sending to everyone they think is in the “room”. So you’ll be re-added. You’ll just have to tell them to stop texting you.
I’ve been on the receiving end of one of these. I used to run the snowboarding blog bckcntry.com and was given an ultimatum by backcountry.com, either take down the blog entirely, or advertise solely for backcountry.com and receive affiliate commissions. I chose the latter.
What's amazing as well is the number of ad server requests this site sends. I've never seen my adblocker number get into the 30's before, but I guess there's a first for everything.
It's not suprising that Bloomberg has more business people to push back on the designers/technical staff in this regard.
Having been on the other end of this fight to keep ads to a minimum as to not damage UX, it's a difficult fight over time as the number of 'business people' in the operation grow in size faster than technical teams. Plus the added pressure from the very top to keep increasing financial output increasing.
This is why I tell people that being a good designer often means being good at saying no. Particularly at larger institutions.
I just found News Feed Eradicator the other day and it has changed my Facebook habits drastically. It lets you use all of the useful features of FB (messages, groups, pages, etc.) and replaces the newsfeed with a quote about procrastination or productivity. 10/10 would recommend - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...
I used this for a while but noticed it greatly slowed down my Facebook in general. Ended up uninstalling it after a few days. Wish they had a lighter weight one.
I know this might sound like a really non-efficient thing to do, but you can individually unfollow every single one of your contacts. I only have around ~200 friends so unfollowing them wasn't that hard.
Nowadays, I love going to Facebook. My news feed is completely empty.
I don't go to that extreme, but I did find Facebook was much more manageable when I started just unfollowing anyone whose posts/reshares annoyed me more than a couple of times.
I've probably only unfollowed about 10% of my total friends list, but the difference is immense, a lot of the noise tends to come from a small subset of the people, in my experience.
This is a missed opportunity. As Shirky points out, social media is "publish, then filter", and you've found a powerful filter that lets you reap the benefits. (And he also points out power laws--10% of the people in your feed post 90% of the garbage.)
While I don't log in to Facebook more than once every six months, your observation gives me hope that I might be able to find some utility in it.
I love this approach personally. Unfollowing almost everyone (except for a few I actually want to see) has it so I usually am OK with going on there now without feeling exasperated. I'm learning a foreign language so I began following people I don't even know who use that language so I can get practice reading it. I'm trying to make it work for my needs instead of completely checking in or out of the whole thing.
It seems to me that the parent would still miss out on what he would like to see the most: pictures of his extended family's (cousins and niece) daily life. The nice thing about the News Feed is that it shows them to you unprompted. Otherwise you'd have to go into each and every single profile and check to see if they have posted anything.
Don't get me wrong, I love the News Feed Eradicator, but it doesn't always change the "Facebook experience" for the better.
I have come to a couple of conclusions, that I can either do like you said and have a frank conversation to say that I believe that I am achieving greater than my salary represents. Or that I can have a contract on the table with another employer, come back to my current employer, and let them know that that is what I'm worth on the market elsewhere. If they decide to match that number is wholly their decision, but at least I will have that piece of mind.
