Wednesday
Oct282009
Facebook Developers Will Get My E-mail Address, Oh Hell No
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 2:19PM
Facebook will give application developers access to your email addresses. Does that worry you?.
Does that worry me? To answer your question, Zee, yeah, just a bit. Ok, maybe more than a bit, a lot a bit.
Good god, just think of the spam I am going to get. It makes me want to bash my head in a wall already.
You know what's the worst part of this deal?
Wha? You mean they get to keep my e-mail for friggen future use? To further spam me about a new, probably crap app they built?
Thank god for that!
Jesus Facebook, you think ridding the spam from inside and sending it directly to me will make the spam situation any better?
Oh wait, it will make Facebook look all pristine on the inside and just send all the crap out to my most important destination online.
Ten points for coming up with a unique way to sweep their crap under the rug. Way to go Facebook! You have found the inner and lazy child within yourself.
But you know what is the worst about this? I have no option to set up a fake e-mail address to provide to Facebook Apps and there will be no permission approval for me to give them their e-mail address. But, damn it all, Apps have to have permission to do anything else.
They just get to have it.
FML.
Facebook, I am not quite sure how much you fail at the moment, but I'll be damned if my ass adds one more app. Screw that spam.
I declare #EPICFAIL
Anyone else agree?
Does that worry me? To answer your question, Zee, yeah, just a bit. Ok, maybe more than a bit, a lot a bit.
Good god, just think of the spam I am going to get. It makes me want to bash my head in a wall already.
You know what's the worst part of this deal?
Whenever a user ‘installs’ an application, the developer is handed their email address, along with first name and last name. This will not be optional, therefore users are going to have to accept that developers will be able to store all these details for use in regard to that application but as well as for future use.
Wha? You mean they get to keep my e-mail for friggen future use? To further spam me about a new, probably crap app they built?
Thank god for that!
Jesus Facebook, you think ridding the spam from inside and sending it directly to me will make the spam situation any better?
Oh wait, it will make Facebook look all pristine on the inside and just send all the crap out to my most important destination online.
Ten points for coming up with a unique way to sweep their crap under the rug. Way to go Facebook! You have found the inner and lazy child within yourself.
But you know what is the worst about this? I have no option to set up a fake e-mail address to provide to Facebook Apps and there will be no permission approval for me to give them their e-mail address. But, damn it all, Apps have to have permission to do anything else.
They just get to have it.
FML.
Facebook, I am not quite sure how much you fail at the moment, but I'll be damned if my ass adds one more app. Screw that spam.
I declare #EPICFAIL
Anyone else agree?
Reader Comments (2)
I most definietely agree. Why should the developers be able to get my email without my permission? Hell, they might as well put emails up on a giant list in XML or something.
I don't understand why somebody at Facebook thought this was a good way to do things. I mean, they could at least make a little checkbox saying, "Yes, give this application my email address." The fact that you have no choice in the matter at all is quite rediculous. It seems like Facebook really has had an #EPICFAIL
I rarely understand the workings of Facebook, supposedly thought this might be a miscommunication.
Not sure yet, I am looking into it. Be nice if it is, cause this really blows.