Hope you all had a great weekend, but I am sorry to bring you some bad news.
After a quite 9 months, Facebook is experimenting with the game notifications again.
Earlier, Facebook did away with game notifications and the change was well received by the users.
And then Facebook announced on Friday:
Games and applications are core to many people’s experience on Facebook, which is why we’re constantly working to improve how people discover, engage and interact with them. As you may have noticed, we’re testing surfacing new requests in the notification channel to drive engagement and discovery. We are measuring the impact of this short-term test to see if it’s something that users enjoy, and we’ll continue to iterate on ways for people to find games and applications.
Ever since, game requests started surfacing in the notifications section.
It has been a quite and nice 9 months without all the clutter game notifications use to make in profile page notifications area. If Facebook goes ahead and roll out the changes, then well… I guess they should be prepared to take some heat from the users.
Killing game notifications from the profile page impacted game developers a lot negatively and this new highly appreciated by them as it will be boost the rate user retention and new user acquisition greatly.
The bottom line however is, how users will respond to the changes? And is Facebook ready to take another stream of widespread criticism.
Before the day Facebook will take a decision on this, do share your views on the new changes Facebook is experimenting with. Do you want game notifications in the profile page notifications section? Are you satisfied with the current game notification setup? Where would you like your game notifications be delivered?
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