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Maybe. I think the idea of "blocking" a program makes a lot less sense to the novice user compared to choosing if a program can e-mail you or post on your wall.
by psawaya 15y ago
Maybe. I think the idea of "blocking" a program makes a lot less sense to the novice user compared to choosing if a program can e-mail you or post on your wall. I agree that they could easily become a nuisance and lead to the user reflexively clicking "accept", though.
- bigiain 15y agoMaybe there needs to be a reverse version of this - all of your _friends_ who get spammed by the app writing in your stream ought to be able to vote [] continue receiving updates from this user using foo-app [] block updates from this user's instance of foo-app [] block all automated updates from this user's stream ([] unfriend this clearly unhinged "install every shiney-thing" user) Then any user with more than a certain threshold of blocks would need to get permission from a majority of his social network before being allowed to authorise apps :-)
- notahacker 15y agoYou missed "block all updates from any instance of foo-app". My Facebook stream looks so much less cluttered since I blocked Zynga apps.