Starting Today, Facebook Apps Can Ask You To Hand Over Your Email Address

January 20th, 2010 admin
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Big changes are coming to Facebook Platform. Today, Facebook is granting developers on Platform the ability to request (or require) users to hand over their email addresses so they they can send periodic messages directly to users. This doesn’t come as a surprise: Facebook first talked about these changes last October and has kept developers updated on the timing in its Developer Roadmap . But it’s a very, very big deal. Before now, Facebook …


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