Facebook: "Please reset your spam settings"

I log into Facebook and I see the following:

it reads:

Unfortunately, your email notification settings have been lost. You can reset them on the Notifications page. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.

Before going into the boring stuff, did you notice how many spam notifications you could get?

Memo to Facebook: your notifications settings are unnecessary.

If they are subject to some trouble or blunders by developers, why have them? They should make a poll (that will be a differenciator to other Web 2.0 sites: ask your customers what they want) asking how many people actually use the notifications. They don’t even need to have a pool to find out how many times a week a person logs in. You already get your notifications at the bottom right corner, why have the emails. Aren’t emails a thing of the 90′s and chat a thing of the 00′s? Maybe somebody realized that they are useless and removed, thinking that they will be missed, however somebody at Microsoft complain about it.

So, people are at Facebook lost my notification settings? I wonder what else they have lost? Can all the messages in the wall, photos, list of friends, etc. can also be lost. Imagine receiving an email telling you that your photos has been lost, that will be a good one.

The fact is that you don’t pay for this service, therefore you may think “a that is the problem with this free stuff”. However there is “no such thing as a free lunch” and you are not paying for the service, but other people are: the advertisers. They are paying for your attention, so if Facebook devalues it’s service by making such mistakes it will have to answer to the users and the advertisers: double trouble.

By the way Facebook, where is the press release with an apology?