Facebook Continues Fight Against Application Spam

Facebook has posted a new change for applications. Apparently, applications have previously placed links within mini-feed stories and notifications that promote other applications. Ultimately, this is what some application developers have been using to cross-promote their less active applications. This is just another one of the back channel models that some developers decided to use.

According to the Facebook posting, developers were using a number of methods for deceiving and tricking users into installing other applications.

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