Facebook Mini-Feed Gets a SPAM Update
Published by Rodney Rumford October 31st, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook Applications.Facebook has just announced an hour ago some changes to their Mini-Feed and how users can interact (hide and report spamminess) with it. This will most likely lessen the spamminess of applications sending unwanted notifications. The bottom line here is improved user experience. Facebook is so great at adding these types of controls. I love it. It does present some challenges for app owners I will admit.
Users can now instantly remove your app directly from the mini-feed. This should make some app owners wake up and take notice and to look at their remove app stats a little more closely.
Facebook application Remove Stats
Facebook application owners should pay close attention. This is just another example of how an application on facebook will always be continually evolving and shows that once you release it; your work is far from done. Adapting to the changing ground rules is very important for all facebook applications.
Facebook is aiming to improve the user experience and this is yet another small step in the right direction.
Facebook Mini-Feed User Spam Report Box
Facebook Mini-Feed User Spam Report Box: I Didn’t Do This
From Facebook: “In an effort to provide users more feedback options about the stories applications publish about them, we have added a new option to the process of hiding Mini-Feed stories.”
“For application-published stories, users can now choose “I didn’t do this” in addition to “Hide Story” to inform Facebook of stories that inaccurately represent the user. When a user chooses this option, they will be presented with the additional option of removing the application entirely. This feature is intended to encourage applications to publish Mini-Feed and News Feed stories that are relevant and accurate thereby improving the user experience.”
“This feedback will also be used in determining the weighting of application-published stories in News Feed.”
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This is really good - even if - as an application developer - it’ll harm growth. Something similar should happen with notification emails which seem to be get sent out by apps like SuperWall, FunWall when non-app events take place.
“Facebook is a media property and a communication platform and much much much more.”
I agree, only I think you left off a few *much*es!
The Greasemonkey browser addon has a script at userscript.org
which AUTOMATICALLY deletes all items in your minifeed
every time you visit your profile page.
Just go to the site and search for e.g. “facebook minifeed.”
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WARNING:
as the site itself warns, there are malicious scripts out there.
Scripts can allow quite powerful exploits of your machine.
I was concerned re: this app,
in case it triggered an action behind the scenes
accessing the inner workings of the Facebook system -
deleting feeds automatically -
which would be unusual and a no-no.
Is it in the “hacking” zone?
I haven’t got the coding skills to check it out,
so I have no idea if this script is safe and advise care;
I haven’t noticed any problems but it’s early days yet.