Comments on: Viral Channels: Email to be Disabled by Default with Profile Redesign http://www.insidefacebook.com/2008/06/01/viral-channels-email-to-be-disabled-by-default-with-profile-redesign/ Tracking Facebook and the Facebook Platform for Developers and Marketers Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:43:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Charlie http://www.insidefacebook.com/2008/06/01/viral-channels-email-to-be-disabled-by-default-with-profile-redesign/comment-page-1/#comment-7942 Charlie Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:41:51 +0000 http://www.insidefacebook.com/?p=801#comment-7942 I disagree. I don't understand why all those checkboxes were on by default for a whole year. Of course that is going to encourage spam. People generally leave defaults alone. By doing that with facebook apps, you're giving an app the ability to send you spam, and to shape people's impression of you by what it puts on your profile and in your newsfeed. Applications should have to earn these privileges. I disagree. I don’t understand why all those checkboxes were on by default for a whole year. Of course that is going to encourage spam. People generally leave defaults alone. By doing that with facebook apps, you’re giving an app the ability to send you spam, and to shape people’s impression of you by what it puts on your profile and in your newsfeed.

Applications should have to earn these privileges.

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