Around 130 years of peo­ples’ time have been spent using my var­i­ous Face­book appli­ca­tions since August 2009. How­ever, I think that the upcom­ing changes to the plat­form will have a neg­a­tive effect for most Face­book API devel­op­ers. The changes being made include remov­ing noti­fi­ca­tions for when a user makes an action with an appli­ca­tion (e.g. draw­ing on a friend’s pho­to­graph). The alter­na­tive given is to email the user directly after ask­ing for their email address. This deci­sion still sur­prises most peo­ple that I men­tion it to.

Face­book may soon make more money than Google (article).