The status comments and comments in return of comments marching in numbers to my inbox bothered me big time. The idea to have it there was highly problematic to begin with as it kept bombarding you with notifications, however it is gone now. Thanks Facebook, as a user it has definitely removed the pain it caused me.
While I am here praising the move, the developer community is not happy. We all know why. I have no grudges against them or how their products benefitted from these notifications. This was already in the talks for the entire month as Facebook was always looking to put an end to notifications on user feeds, what might really be bothering them is the fact that hardly a few days back the social network had confirmed that they will not be making the move. So why exactly has been done and what was the issue?
I am not sure if you noticed it or not, but it had been happening that you would see notifications on comments been made in response to those who aren’t friends with you. Result? You would see how threads just kept growing even when you hadn’t participated in a thread or had replied already. Sounded very spammy to say the least.
So what is my take on this?
I personally like this move. A promotion is something that apps should have but taking undue advantage of the features and excessive push at content sounds like a terrible idea. What this has done is reduced one way of contagious promotion that bugs everyone around you. And while developers would love to have this available to force others into engaging, I would suggest that it remains so and the social network actually sticks to keeping the feeds, notifications and inboxes clean of all this.
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