Monday 2 November 2015

NDM News Story 16: Candy Crush(ed): Zuckerberg pledges to halt Facebook game invitations

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/28/candy-crush-zuckerberg-facebook-game-invitations


An aspect that immensely annoys Facebook users are the endless requests and notifications from games as the majority of the users, have no interest in Facebook's games. During one of Zuckerberg's Q&A sessions, a question was asked about how to stop Candy Crush requests and if Zuckerberg had any intentions to end this irritating aspect of Facebook. To many of the audience's delight, he revealed that he had looked into putting a stop to these notifications and thought that it would be very good and beneficial to solve this particular problem. He also stated that Facebook have many other priorities that they must sort out first but he hopes that at some point, this issue would be dealt with. Zuckerberg did not go into much more detail and the creator of Candy Crush did not comment on this event but many people hope that this idea would be implemented as soon as possible.

  • The top-rated comment, with 7,500 likes, in response to Zuckerberg’s call-out for users’ questions before his talk at the the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi was a straight-to-the-point: “I don’t want any more invitations to Candy Crush. How can I stop it?”
  • “This is where these Town Hall Q&As are really useful because I actually saw this question, that it was the top voted question on my thread,” Zuckerberg said. “So I sent a message to the person who runs the team in charge of our developer platform and I said by the time I do this Town Hall Q&A, I think it would be good if we had a solution to this problem.”

I think the way Mark Zuckerberg responded to this issue is a very good example for other institutions as it shows that in order to succeed, the audience's opinions and comments are very vital. If Zuckerberg did solve this problem,this may be very positive for those who use Facebook purely for communication and there may be slight possibilities that more people will continue or even start to use Facebook more often.

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