I had talked about some of the advantages Facebook has over orkut in previous post. There I discussed that Facebook has social engagement feature that is quite missing from Orkut. Facebook is being projected an innovation of the magnitude of Windows OS platform that let everyone built their application on top of the platform. Wonderful! Isn’t it? Anyone can use SDK provided by Facebook and built their application and upload on the Facebook. Many of the developers are earning quite a good money because of this open structure of the Facebook. This open structure also helped the exponential growth of the Facebook community over the last one year.
Now, I am seeing a drastic strategic change in the development of the new applications. Whenever a new request comes to you (when I am getting married?, What kind of drunk I am?), you need to forward request to 10-15 another friends to know the result. I have not forwarded to anyone because I see it as spamming my friends and I don’t like that. On top of that I am getting 10-15 request from other people in my network if I keep accepting every request and then send to another 10-15 members in my community, I can’t imagine what kind of mess it will become. I am sure I will not be the only one who will ignore such application even on the first instance of seeing them in the notification area, forget about the forwarding to others.
I am not sure this is consciously taken decision or it has just happened how the applications should be developed. I feel some of the application developers are getting too greedy (because they earn profit out of it) and want to grow in the Facebook network as fast as possible and earn some quick money. But everytime earning quick money can be detrimental for the growth of whole system. Facebook need to check this from happening further if they want to have bigger share of the online social networking.
Now, I am seeing a drastic strategic change in the development of the new applications. Whenever a new request comes to you (when I am getting married?, What kind of drunk I am?), you need to forward request to 10-15 another friends to know the result. I have not forwarded to anyone because I see it as spamming my friends and I don’t like that. On top of that I am getting 10-15 request from other people in my network if I keep accepting every request and then send to another 10-15 members in my community, I can’t imagine what kind of mess it will become. I am sure I will not be the only one who will ignore such application even on the first instance of seeing them in the notification area, forget about the forwarding to others.
I am not sure this is consciously taken decision or it has just happened how the applications should be developed. I feel some of the application developers are getting too greedy (because they earn profit out of it) and want to grow in the Facebook network as fast as possible and earn some quick money. But everytime earning quick money can be detrimental for the growth of whole system. Facebook need to check this from happening further if they want to have bigger share of the online social networking.
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