Facebook cracking down on forced invites
16 February 2008, by Karl Bunyan
The Facebook application world has recently been plagued by a slightly underhand practice of forcing users to invite friends to an application in order to access information. 
The Facebook application world has recently been plagued by a slightly underhand practice of forcing users to invite friends to an application in order to access information. Often, this has taken the form of a quiz where the user is asked a series of questions and then, before being shown their result, must invite 10 or 20 friends. At this point the user has already spent time in the application and may continue by spamming their friends or, as many have been doing, joined groups and complained to Facebook about the practice.
It seems that Facebook is taking note and may start to clamp down on applications that implement this practice. This notice on the Facebook Developers pages outlines the main approach, and more explicit detail is written in the platform policy.
February 16, 2008 at 6:18 pm
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