Should Facebook Ban All Application Friend Invitations

ByAllan Cockerill

Browsing Facebook, as I’m prone to do 🙂 . I found a group called ‘Official Facebook Petition: To Ban The inviting Of Friends On Applications’. With over 267,000 members gathered over a short period of time, it looks like it has hit a nerve with Facebook friends. I didn’t join the group though, because: Good…

Why Do Some Facebook Applications Force You To Invite Friends

ByAllan Cockerill

Developers of Facebook applications generally rely on viral marketing to get the news out about their products to the public. Simply put, viral marketing relies on word of mouth, or friends recommending a product to others. All the applications that I have used ask users to invite friends, and most give the option of skipping…