Facebook App Developers Can Now Offer Users Explicitly Shared Actions

Facebook introduced what it calls explicitly shared actions, which allows developers to give users of their applications the option of sharing actions within those apps, such as Foursquare check-ins and Instagram photos, as if they were directly posted to the social network.

Facebook introduced what it calls explicitly shared actions, which allows developers to give users of their applications the option of sharing actions within those apps, such as Foursquare check-ins and Instagram photos, as if they were directly posted to the social network.

In a post on its developer blog, Facebook stressed that the feature must be optional for users of apps, and it outlined the types of actions that are eligible for the explicitly shared actions feature, as well as those that are not.

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