Because, currently, there isn't any way to friend/unfriend anyone through the app. We use your FB social graph to get your connections. By allowing you to go through some other method, twitter, for instance (or just regular old email/password), you wouldn't be able to interact with other people. Granted, you can still SMS/email/tweet your link and have people view your photos, but there would be large parts of the app that would be perpetually empty for you.
It's not to say that FB will be the one and only way to access Batch forever and always, but, for now, in its current state, it makes for a better user experience (I feel, at least) if we do only allow FB logins.
(Disclaimer: While I work for Batch/Dailybooth, the opinions expressed here are my own and are not necessarily the opinions of the company.)
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Because, currently, there isn't any way to friend/unfriend anyone through the app. We use your FB social graph to get your connections. By allowing you to go through some other method, twitter, for instance (or just regular old email/password), you wouldn't be able to interact with other people. Granted, you can still SMS/email/tweet your link and have people view your photos, but there would be large parts of the app that would be perpetually empty for you.
It's not to say that FB will be the one and only way to access Batch forever and always, but, for now, in its current state, it makes for a better user experience (I feel, at least) if we do only allow FB logins.
(Disclaimer: While I work for Batch/Dailybooth, the opinions expressed here are my own and are not necessarily the opinions of the company.)