well if you can opt out of having applications appear in your news feed then developers lose out on both friend invites and news feed growth - both of which apps such as ilike/slide had access to.
i think that's the point of the article - you can still use fb as a viral platform, it's just as viral for new apps as it is for the more established start ups.
Actually the one thing you can't turn off in your news feed is to receive app notifications. The person who adds the app can turn of sending them, but I can't turn off the flood of app messages in my incoming news feed.
Also, even if you disable the ability for the app to publish items in the news feed, it still publishes the add/remove notification. You have to remove that one manually.
As a user, the cluttering of the news feed is my biggest frustration with the new platform--- I don't care if all my friends add this junk, but I should be able to opt out of the messages with the news feed sliders.
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well if you can opt out of having applications appear in your news feed then developers lose out on both friend invites and news feed growth - both of which apps such as ilike/slide had access to.
i think that's the point of the article - you can still use fb as a viral platform, it's just as viral for new apps as it is for the more established start ups.
The default is what matters. Currently the default will show apps in your news feed.
Actually the one thing you can't turn off in your news feed is to receive app notifications. The person who adds the app can turn of sending them, but I can't turn off the flood of app messages in my incoming news feed.
Also, even if you disable the ability for the app to publish items in the news feed, it still publishes the add/remove notification. You have to remove that one manually.
As a user, the cluttering of the news feed is my biggest frustration with the new platform--- I don't care if all my friends add this junk, but I should be able to opt out of the messages with the news feed sliders.