That's it Facebook, take another giant step towards alienating your
users, and me deleting my account.

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notification that bugs you to update your status via TUAW - The
Unofficial Apple Weblog by Michael Grothaus on 3/21/13



In a stellar example of how annoying push notifications can be if
misused by app developers, social media giant Facebook is testing a
push notification on its iOS app that bugs a user to update their
status if they have not updated it in a while. The "feature" was first
discovered and tweeted by Bijan Sabet, a general partner at Spark
Capital and confirmed by Mashable.

A Facebook representative admitted to Mashable that the feature is in
a "small test we're running." Facebook is notorious for testing new
features in certain geographic segments across the globe. However, just
because they're testing this does not mean that the company will make
it a standard "feature" on the app. But if it does, I can easily see
this annoying the heck out of users. Sometimes I just don't need to
update my Facebook status every day or week, and if my app is always
asking me to do so, it will quickly be deleted.

Facebook testing iOS notification that bugs you to update your status
originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 21
Mar 2013 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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