Facebook Adds More Spam Protection

When Facebook launched the new Facebook Pages system, some people wondered if the level of spam was about to increase. Additionally, in the past week Facebook added a new setting to the application privacy settings that enables users to disable email notifications. Some suggested that this was a new feature that enabled applications to send emails, but in fact it is simply a new protection for users. Applications have been able to send emails to users since the platform launched back in May.

Just like Facebook Beacon, application emails are an opt-out program.

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