Reeling in annoying facebook apps
Feeling annoyed by all those zombie movie sharing super pokes flooding facebook that all your dear friends find so amusing, but really annoy the crap out of you, facebook has a plan. Reeling in out of control apps based on adoption rates is a good idea, and one probably far past time for it to happen. If anything distracts us from our facebook time is the idea that all our friends like stupid super poking love shaped ducks that are hocking the movies they like based on some weird compatibility score.
We love our friends, but facebook apps, well we don’t use them anymore, more fun to read walls, see what kind of comments folks are making on the Obama love fest section in facebook rather than being super poked by a zombie. Dang zombies are everywhere, and along comes some great news from Read Write Web it is long past time to be reeling in those super poking zombie brain eating ducks that watch movies and have a compatibility rating of about 9%.
Starting next week, Facebook apps that get good user responses from Newsfeed messages (clickthroughs, app installs) will be allowed to send more notifications and apps that get fewer user responses to their notices will have the number of notices they can send cut down. Metered messaging based on user engagement could save the Facebook Platform from a growing sense of app fatigue. Source: Read Write Web
What is interesting is that they talk about MySpace and its taking lessons from facebook super zombie applications. Meaning that MySpace is not taking lessons, and will “work on it when they get there”. There is a huge audience difference between facebook and MySpace, and this difference is going to be more noticeable in what applications are adopted by the general populace of MySpace. MySpace is already a cesspool of advertising and generalized junk with music that launches on load of page (remember this is never good web design).
If facebook apps are stupid in general, then MySpace apps should be just about moronic with an IQ hovering somewhere around developmentally delayed. Yet another reason to stay away from some of the more strange things that people do on the internet. With MySpace’s track record of security, this is going to be even more interesting as these applications start sharing data and collecting data back to a mother ship somewhere. This is going to be really interesting in the longer run, especially when it comes to protecting people’s information, privacy, pictures, and whatever else they post on line.
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