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And it's astounding how much Facebook apps have been forgotten, with Meta's neglect and abandonment of their own platform. Not that it was a technology with an
by Apocryphon 4y ago
And it's astounding how much Facebook apps have been forgotten, with Meta's neglect and abandonment of their own platform. Not that it was a technology with an extended lifespan anyway, users were only going to stomach endless notifications from FarmVille and Mafia Wars for so long.
- alex_c 4y agoI wouldn't say Facebook apps were forgotten as much as actively suppressed by Facebook after a certain point in time. In the early days of the platform app developers had a huge amount of freedom in terms of accessing users' social graphs, pushing notifications to timelines, and so on. It made it incredibly easy to build a viral loop and push out an app that spread like wildfire. Obvious downsides to that - big privacy issues, and annoying users with endless notifications like you said. Facebook had to start restricting what app developers could do, and once that happened it became much harder for apps to get traction.
- disgruntledphd2 4y agoThe story I heard was that Zynga almost killed Facebook.