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December 16, 2007

Facebook’s Shifty Notifications

Filed under: THOUGHTS — zaiss @ 2:16 pm

Complaints abound over the… enthusiastic nature with which some Facebook applications try to get you to sign up. I guess it’s all about the numbers. But as I watched my notifications over the course of a week, I was intrigued by what I saw. At the start of the week, I was being notified about these items:

Notifications part 1 with Friends, Photos, Wall, and Live Blog all checked and Entourage and Neighborhoods unchecked

The items under “Other Applications” aren’t applications that I added to my profile. In fact, I don’t know where they came from at all, or why Live Blog is checked but others aren’t.

Two days later, and Entourage gets the boot, though the Neighborhoods app is lingering and unchecked:
Notifications part 2, this time without entourage

Three more days go by, and I’m suddenly no longer getting Photo notifications:
Notifications part 3, this time Photos are missing!

Now, hang on a second! I actually wanted those (hence the fact that they were checked earlier). As if sensing my dissatisfaction, Facebook offers a replacement by the end of the week:
Notifications part 4, with Notes added to the mix.

I suppose Notes are better than Photos anyway.

All I did over the course of the week was take screen shots – I didn’t adjust any settings (nor did I find anywhere that I could adjust them). So what’s with the revolving notifications?

1 Comment »

  1. FacebookBETA, Zuckerboy Apologizes Edition

    Comment by julian — December 16, 2007 @ 4:20 pm

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