Facebook announced very early this morning that they are going to allow users more feedback options regarding the items that get published about them, especially in the Mini-Feed.
In case you’re one of the five or so folks left who hasn’t used Facebook yet, third-party applications have the ability to publish stories to the Mini-Feed on your behalf, either as a result of actions from within Facebook, the Third-Party application, or from some action performed somewhere else being tracked by a Facebook application.
Now, though, users can review actions published to the mini-feed in new ways: users are able hit the “Hide Story” option like they always have, but also available is “I didn’t do this”, which when selected also provides an additional option of removing the application entirely.
Obviously, this will curtail some of the over-zealousness of some applications to behave in somewhat shady, “spammy” ways. Facebook hopes that it will also improve the quality, accuracy and relevancy of the Mini-Feed and News Feed stories.
User comment: By: Henry LiMyGrowUp.com is develop a tight integration to FB. We plan to push friends update to mini-feed. For example, after your MyGrowUp friends or FB friends add a new photo/video in his/her timeline based album, we will notify you through mini-feed. Another case is like this: you MyGrowUp friend send you a message, we might also push it to your FB Mini-feed. I just to get some idea from all of you to see if you will be anoyed to have these in you mini-feed. (Of cause we can make it as an option to enable/disable it) Thanks Hong
User comment: By: Web Community Forum » Blog Archive » Mashable says Facebook announced new anti-spam controls for the mini-feed[...] to Mashable, Facebook announced this morning that they're adding new "spam control" features to the mini-feed. I went and [...]
User comment: By: Adam OstrowThere is this one app (that I initially reviewed pretty positively here on Mash I might add) that pushes out a story that I simply "used" their application today, with a bunch of ads for their sponsors. I find that one pretty obnoxious.
Visit here to subscribe to these commentsUser comment: By: Teresa Valdez KleinPerhaps I just have impeccable judgment when it comes to which applications to install, but I've never encountered an application that publishes stuff I didn't actually DO in my mini-feed. I've seen applications publish too much content and overwhelm my mini-feed though. Until now "hide action" was the only way to take care of that. I'm glad that FB is providing more granular options for what gets into the mini feed.
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