I still find game feeds really annoying... although I have to admit I used to play restaurant city. I should probably delete my account, since I still get posts on my wall once someone has 'cleaned' up my restaurant. :S
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/09/22/mashable.facebook.games/index.html
"If Facebook decides you are interested in games, it will be displaying full game stories (instead of collapsed ones) in the News Feed, as well as adding prominent counts to those stories to highlight tasks that need to be completed within a game."
I wonder how FB decides whether you're interested in games or not. Allowing a game application to have access to your profile doesn't mean you're interested in games.
"From the users' perspective, these are welcome changes, especially for non-gamers who won't be pestered by constant game-related notifications. From the game developers' end, it remains to be seen whether these improvements will alleviate the fact that gaming-related notifications will now be less aggressive than before."
This is sort of related to the reading I did for my ethics class today - spamming game posts to users' friends is annoying to a lot of people who don't play FB games but it's done to attract FB users to play the games. While it's annoying as hell I have to admit that I did check out FarmVille because one of my friends news feed solely comprised of FarmVille posts and I was curious what the fuss was all about. Needless to say... I unauthorized it within 15 minutes of exploring the game lol. I rather go on Kongregate for flash games. It's funny to note that hardly anyone really plays console games anymore but ADD on flash games online or mobile games.
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