10:13 by FoxTwo
To Facebook Apps Developers....
When you FORCE them to send invites to 5 or 10 or 15 etc friends before you allow the "results" to be shown. Yes, many will spam their friends just to see the "results", but if your app is useless, it only gets spammed ONCE. Then people remove it and block it.
For once, go take a look at successful apps. Apps like Friends For Sale for example. You don't need to tell us to spam invites... we'll invite on our own because, we get $ when we do, and we can't buy people who don't have the apps installed unless they're on our friends list. You BET we'll invite, even without the need to force us to!
Not only that, people will continue to use/play with your apps if it's FUN and ENGAGING. Make 'em fun and the app will become popular. Force us to spam invites, it stays in our profiles only until we find time to remove it. And remove we WILL.
Forcing people to spam invites makes your app a "virus". That's how viruses spread - by forcing themselves onto others. Chances are, you know that if you don't force people to do it, nobody will come back to your app a second time eh? What a low tactic.
Giving incentives to invite people is another thing - more money, more points, whatever. As long as it's our concious decision to say "hey this app is fun, I want to invite my friends to come play it", it's fine.
Labels: facebook, internet, Rant
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vickie @ Monday, February 25, 2008 11:38:00 PM Honesetly facebook application do give us to some entertainment when we got nothing to do... somehow those application invitation really disgusting... thats why I'll open Facebook once or twice a week only
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FoxTwo @ Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:45:00 AM vickie - adopt a new habit - BLOCK apps :) Once you block them, someone else who try to send you an invite for that app will find that they can't. On your end, you will start to receive lesser and lesser app invites, because once your blocked app list grows larger, more apps get blocked, hence less app-spam get to you. :)
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@ Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:47:00 AM
umm...block all you want except mine k *.^
