Bother No More - A Weblog By Mattias Gunneras

I don't often use Linked In, but I've got an account. Today I received an email and I had to write a reply, after sending the email, I got a message on the top of my screen reading 'Your request was successful'. This feels in my opinion both geeky and quite a bit lame coming from a social network these days. My request was successful? What does that really mean? That I successfully clicked a button? What I think they are trying to say is that they successfully processed my request, ok, I'm acting a bit stupid but only to prove my point. Too generic user feedback sounds bad and should probably be avoided.