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I think this brings up a bigger issue surrounding Facebook apps- most of them don't really know their users. Scrabulous doesn't have the email for their users,

I think this brings up a bigger issue surrounding Facebook apps- most of them don't really know their users. Scrabulous doesn't have the email for their users, and thus has no way of contacting them like a normal web application. If Facebook were forced to change their name to BlueSocialNetwork for some reason and the change was enforced immediately and without warning, they could just email all their users about the change. Scrabulous hasn't collected emails, so they can't do that. Same for Slide's apps- it's interesting how these companies are operating with their userbase completely outside their control in terms of contact information.

thorax 18y ago
They should have been linking users to Wordscraper at the top of Scrabulous. Or on the taken-down page for Scrabulous.
sanj 18y ago
If a user adds your app, you can send them a notification within Facebook.
- jfarmer 18y ago
  But you don't actually have the email address, and Facebook decides what to send or not to send. Once your app is gone it's just too late. Basically Facebook is a prison guard and an app has access to email the same way a prisoner has access to letters.