Facebook Phasing Out Notifications, Launching Email Address Requests by Apps

The Facebook Platform team is having a busy week, following up its announcement that it would increase the maximum size of photos on the social-networking site while decreasing the size of profile pictures with the announcement that it is greasing the skids for the departure of its Notification channel and the implementation of apps communicating with users by requesting their email addresses.

Arjun Banker, an engineer on the Facebook Platform team, posted on the Facebook Developers Blog:

While we’re making the process of requesting email addresses more streamlined today, some developers have been communicating with users through this channel for some time.

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