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Facebook Asks Developers to Agree to Social Contract

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

Yesterday Facebook formally announced the launch of the new design and there were a significant number of changes. Much of the driving force behind the new profile design was the pollution being created by a practically limitless number of applications on user profiles. Developers were also taking ... Continue reading »

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  • Tom

    11 months ago

    I read the new Platform Policy and it does say you can't use invites to unlock features - like get quiz results. At no point does it say you can't use them to earn points in a game.

    We give points away for a variety of activities, including Invites, and the way the policy is written, it looks like we can keep doing that.
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  • David

    11 months ago

    From Paul's post: "new policies apply to existing features as well: for example, not incentivizing requests"

    Also, from the policy document: "Applications cannot incentivize users (for example, offer points, virtual or real payments, or a ranking) to grant an additional permission or add or use an Application Integration Point." and "Defined Terms
    Application Integration Point means Profile Box, Application Info Section, Application tab, notification email, Feed, requests (including invites), or any other feature of a user profile or Facebook communication channel in which or through which an application can provide, display, or deliver content directed at, on behalf of, or by permission of a user."
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  • adaml

    11 months ago

    Oblivion seems inevitable for months of mine (and others) work. This is the right decision for Facebook though.
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  • Jamie

    11 months ago

    i hoping that this makes applications better and maybe the better applications in a genre to work together

    Also it should be made that applications are prohibited to have the same display name or application name as another
    Hug Me and Scratch and win are 2 that come to mind quickly - there is multiple apps with these names (i sure there more instances of other names)
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