Suffering From Facebook Fatigue? - TIMEFirst Faved : Apr 17 2008 by jez34tkinsFaved : 2 times with notesViewed : 10 timesFave It!
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Quoted: App creators insist that people actually enjoy the invitations. "It is something very positive," says Vikas Gupta, an Amazon.com alum who created both the popular Send Good Karma and Hug Me apps, and runs his start-up Jambool out of a spare bedroom in San Francisco's South of Market district. "It is a positive action that people like sending to their friends."
- jez34tkins - Apr 17 2008 | time, facebook, good article, social bookmarking
With 20,000 add-on apps and countless spam invitations, Facebook users are starting to rebel against the overload
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Very true. The key problem is that many applications use the invitation of friends as a way of unlocking features or getting more 'points' or whatnot. It gets to the point, that if I actually feel compelled to get the reward for inviting friends, I usually send the invites to my acquaintances that I don't like as much, so I don't have to spam my 'real' friends. I don't think inviting friends necessarily needs to be removed, but I think facebook should ban the incentivising of it, and that would largely solve the problem.