Facebook account is a mess at times. Newsfeed and notifications sort of spam your homepage and in the mist of all these, important notifications goes unnoticed at times and leaves you fuming or embarrassed.
Thankfully, Facebook is going to become a little more tidier and less annoying. Now your “notifications” on Facebook will be for things like comments left on your posts or Profile wall.
Facebook announced today that beginning next Monday, March1, 2010, they are not going to deliver application notifications anymore.
Developers and their apps will be required to use less intrusive methods of sending news to users.
Many developers will not be very happy about the decision as it will push them out of the user’s line of sight. Many developers tries to notify all users of anything, at any and all opportunities because those notifications drive traffic.
Facebook have recently given permission to ask app users for their email addresses, which can be use to email app notifications directly. Facebook also advises developers to make use of the recently added Applications and Games dashboards to share lightweight messages.
Nothing have been mention about any affect on the newsfeed.
Personally, i would like it better if Facebook does something about the newsfeed generated by apps. But at least, clearing off the clutters in the notification section is one headache less during my time spend on Facebook.
So, watch out for the changes to go into effect on Monday, and let us know about your views on this too.
