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The whole invite process should be stopped. What should be improved is the application library, and there should be an 'application' application which allows you to summarise all the apps (you choose) and display a link on your profile, with a review and rating facility. If others were interested they could easily see which apps you use and what you think of them.
Yes! Enough with the spam; let them grow organically, via the news feeds, word of mouth, profiles, directories, blogs, etc.
Yes, it's a good thing as we commented on yesterdays post that it's about quality not the quantity of apps.
@Tom
If an app requires someone to invite friends in order to use features of an app then that is very poor design. An application should stand on it's own merit and have it's own intrinsic value that makes it worthy of a friend invite.
Also, the scenario you outlined is against the terms Nick posted here, there has to be more than just message saying you must invite someone on the page following a skip.
I disagree that invites should be removed altogether. Users will simply ask for some sort of invitation mechanism for apps they find very engaging. I.e., the demand for an invitation system would arise very quickly. Evidence for this is provided by apps which collect user feedback asking for more invitations per day, and more vectors for evangelism, rather than for fewer.
Have an app that's very engaging, fun, and adds value to the FB experience and the problem of intrusive and inappropriate invites will diminish significantly, perhaps to the point of (statistically speaking) the problem going away.
The current problem with invites is not the invites themselves, or the invitation/request system. The current problem is, and the invites "crisis" is caused by, a tremendous failure of imagination by many application developers.
We need more things like this one.
Regards,
I've gotten feedback from some friends who joined FB in November that they're not visiting or using the site regularly due to the overwhelming number of invites to bite, kick, scratch, punch or whatever application the few really offensive developers have been developing. The really small shops who are doing this don't get as far.
The signal to noise ratio has reached a tipping point - and Facebook is finally doing something about it.
Yeah, but it seems like this is the way all new apps works these days. For example all new quiz-apps where you are forced to invite 20-or-so friends to get your results. It have been like this for months, and I am getting really sick of it as I am drowning in those invites. This behaviour of app developers is about the biggest problem with FaceBook right now I would say.
My suggestion: Make it possible for ordinary FaceBook users to report an application as spam or spam-encouraging.
In addition apps should be forced to tell of such conditions in advance, preferably it should be included in the app title to prevent the waste of fb members' time. Fair?