Why is it some developers of applications in Facebook feel they need to resort to underhand coercion in order to make their particular application look good? Those applications that resort to the tatic of forcing you to send application or quiz invitations to ‘x’ number of friends in order to see your own answer.
Okay, my particular beef with this is that when you get an invite for taking part in quiz or application in any community it should be (IMHO) because the person who sent it wanted to send it to you. But when application developers force you send things to friends, this does rather negate this. What happens when you don’t have ‘x’ number of friends? It’ll be interesting to see what develops, but tatics like this normally backfire.
I agree with that. I think more and more, facebook application developers adopt behaviours akin to those of spammers.
Also worrying is the fact you cannot completely delete your account (the best they can do is “deactivate” it) …
By: Rija on 24 February, 2008
at 12:46