Yesterday , Facebook fine-tune itsPlatform Policies , and while some of the changes are pernicious , there ’s one which is very welcome : from now , the construct of offering access to apps or depicted object in reappearance for Likes is banned .
Straight outta the mouth of Zuckerberg & Co. , the young rulereads like this :
You must not incentivize mass to use societal plugins or to like a Page . This include offering rewards , or gating apps or app message based on whether or not a person has like a Page . It remains satisfactory to incentivize people to login to your app , checkin at a place or enter a furtherance on your app ’s Page . To ensure quality connections and assist businesses reach the mass who count to them , we want citizenry to like page because they require to touch base and hear from the business , not because of contrived incentives . We believe this update will gain people and advertiser likewise .
We sure as shooting think it ’ll profit mass . The alteration have to be put in blank space by developers by November 5 2014 . That gives them 90 day . [ FacebookviaThe Next entanglement ]
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