Comments on: Facebook launching Profile Clean-up Tool, giving apps the boot

By: How Much Money Are Facebook Apps Making? Not Much Apparently | Venture Chronicles

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:15:26 +0000

[...] not actually using them for anything. In fact, profile clutter is now so much of a problem that FB released a clean up tool to deal with [...]

By: Inside Facebook » Facebook cracking down on "deceptive" developers

Inside Facebook » Facebook cracking down on "deceptive" developers — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:55:17 +0000

[...] developers in the name of enhancing the user experience. In the last week alone, Facebook has kicked a large portion of application boxes off of profile pages and limited the distribution of news feed stories to friends who don’t have the application [...]

By: Facebook to Launch Profile Clean-Up Tool

Facebook to Launch Profile Clean-Up Tool — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:24:14 +0000

[...] Current data suggests that over 60 million active Facebook users have installed an average of 13 apps each, totaling 800 million apps. [...]

By: Bart

Bart — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:35:57 +0000

But it won’t stop the stream of application requests. The should solve a few other things:

1) Ban applications that require you to invite 20 people before you can start using the application.

2) Ban applications that send you fake messages like “You have been kissed, find out who” while you’ve just been invited.

3) Applications should show you their ‘message’ immediately before you need to install it.

4) Allow users to rank applications on the above parameters.