There have been rumors last month that Facebook is going to see some changes in regards to its app notifications. Talks have been made that the app notifications would soon turn into email notifications instead. But with the start of March, developer blog of facebook has made an announcement that as of March 1, 2010 app notifications will be discontinued – no one will be delivering app notifications to your profile anymore and Facebook will no longer support the sending of these app notifications.
This is good news for users who hate being bombarded by these app notifications every time they log in. However, you can not expect these notifications to disappear forever. What is being done is that instead of doing universal notifications these app developers can choose from several methods in order to communicate with its users.
Facebook recommends these app developers to send their notices and announcements to the dashboard of their apps or to send the users email messages – users will have to agree to the email opt ins first of course.
The counters that Facebook points out as an alternative for app notifications are just like the notifications except that they will be specific to each individual app. So this means that if an app is bookmarked in your Facebook page you will get notices from this app. This is called by Facebook as the Applications and Games dashboards.
Facebook also announced that later this year, they plan to change how the profiles and requests function are going to be displayed. They also plan to make some changes on the canvas pages design.
