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New Facebook rules make app spam a thing of the past
This doesn't mean that apps won't be able to communicate with their users. They're getting put back into the sidebar, and that (virtually useless) boxes tab is going away. App and Game notifications will be handled by a new sidebar dashboard, moving them out of your stream once and for all.
Email will also figure more prominently in the user-developer relationship, with developers getting the option to ask users for their email addresses and send notifications that way.
Facebook isn't mincing words about what it's trying to do, here. In the official blog post announcing the changes, they come right out and say they're trying to cut down on spam: "Application communication in channels like notifications and requests aren't effectively serving their original purpose. There is a significant opportunity to improve the user experience and reduce spam by replacing them with better features and moving most communication to the stream and Inbox."
Take that, Farmville!
[via TechCrunch]
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Choke A Smurf said 9:20AM on 10-29-2009
LOL. Love the last line of the article.
This is good news though by far. Facebook was starting to become unusable. There was such a tremendous amount of clutter and constant friend updates that you couldn't keep up with anything! Not to mention all the random applications talked about in the article.
I think I might not be deleting my facebook account after all.
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