By Don Lofthouse
Updated Facebook Developer Policies

Updated Facebook Developer Policies

25. Nov, 2009 8 Comments

Even though we all knew it was coming, the updated policies will disappoint almost every application developer on Facebook.

As announced in the Facebook Developer Roadmap, the Facebook Platform Guidelines are now replaced with the new Developer Principles and Policies.

As a Facebook Platform Policy Team member wrote in a blog post earlier today, they are giving developers until December 16th to comply their applications with the new rules.

By having a quick look at the Examples and Explanations page for the new Policies, you can see that Facebook is shutting down each and every effective way for developers to promote, advertise and expand their app. And this is only the beginning as per the Roadmap Facebook is going to shut down all the effective channels that apps use to communicate with users as well.

Are you a developer on Facebook? What do you think about these changes and how do you think it will affect the Platform?

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1661696177 facebook-1661696177

    They are going to lose a lot of developers because of this. It just goes to show that the Platform is not stable and cannot be relied on. There are a lot of companies that build busineses based on the FB Platform and they won't be happy about this.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1661696177 facebook-1661696177

    They are going to lose a lot of developers because of this. It just goes to show that the Platform is not stable and cannot be relied on. There are a lot of companies that build busineses based on the FB Platform and they won't be happy about this.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1661696177 facebook-1661696177

    They are going to lose a lot of developers because of this. It just goes to show that the Platform is not stable and cannot be relied on. There are a lot of companies that build busineses based on the FB Platform and they won't be happy about this.

  • http://fappside.com/2009/11/26/facebook-bans-ad-networks/ Facebook Bans Ad Networks | fappside

    [...] tells me this list will cobntinue to grow. Just yesterday Facebook announced that they will give time to all the developers to comply their applications with the Platforms new Policies, but why aren’t they doing the same for ad [...]

  • http://fappside.com/2009/12/19/facebook-platform-good-experiences/ Facebook Platform. Good Experiences. | fappside

    [...] deadline for enforcement of the new Facebook Developer Principles and Policies has passed and now all the application [...]

  • http://thefacebookjournal.com/2009/11/26/facebook-bans-ad-networks/ Facebook Bans Ad Networks | The Facebook Journal

    [...] tells me this list will continue to grow. Just yesterday Facebook announced that they will give time to all the developers to comply their applications with the Platform’s new Policies, but why aren’t they doing the same for ad networks? CrunchBase Information on [...]

  • http://thefacebookjournal.com/2009/12/19/facebook-platform-good-experiences/ Facebook Platform. Good Experiences. | The Facebook Journal

    [...] deadline for enforcement of the new Facebook Developer Principles and Policies has passed and now all the application [...]

  • http://www.socialcubix.com Facebook Platform Developer

    Good post.