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Facebook has announced significant changes to the newsfeed. This is part of their ongoing battle against spammy applications. As Ari Steinberg has posted on the Facebook developer blog, application must now only post active newsfeed stories. Stories such as “Nick has just been superpok
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1 year ago
I think it's a step in the right direction.. but I think they should hire some reviewers and make a directory of GOOD applications. Be selective. Not everybody can be a winner. But pick the best.
1 year ago
1 year ago
After the apps were unleashed and figured out that spam was the way to grow, my News Feed has turned into a whole bunch of Flixter notifications "that X challenged Y to take a movie quiz" with X and Y being any two random people from my friends list. Or that I received a video message from Z, even though I didn't.
In short time, most of the content on my News Feed was app generated junk.
After getting tired of Flixter producing this spam on my friends's feeds, I've uninstalled it, as well as all of the ****-walls. It's a shame, Flixter could be a useful community application but they shot themselves in the foot by being unscrupulous in their user acquisition tactics.
The next great step would be if I could mute news about specific apps even if those actions were actually initiated by the users. I really don't care if someone turned vampire or became a pirate...