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Facebook to end notifications for applications including FarmVille
You may have seen a Facebook announcement that appears above your FarmVille home page. The message prompts you to give FarmVille your email address so that you may receive notifications through there.
See picture of announcement below:
Facebook FarmVille Notifications Announcement
What exactly does Facebook notifications include? To me, Facebook notifications are the pop-ups of notifcations (labeled as such) that you receive when something has happened such as “Ginger just fertilized your farm on FarmVille”. The notifications tab can be located on the bottom right of your Facebook screen. It is usually indicated by a red bubble that displays the count of active notifications.
This does NOT affect friend rewards, adoptables or other FarmVille items that you would post to your Facebook newsfeed.
Official word from Facebook blog:
“Starting today, you’ll have a new way to stay connected to your favorite applications on Facebook.
As we work to make the site as simple and efficient as possible, we’re giving you the opportunity to receive updates from applications in your email inbox, such as your MSN, Yahoo! or Gmail accounts, similar to how you may receive email notifications from Facebook when you’re tagged in a photo or receive a message. Note that you will have to explicitly grant developers the right to email you; they will never receive your email address without your expressed consent.
You can now use the rules and routing mechanisms of your email inbox to control how you communicate with applications. This email option is one of a number of upcoming changes we announced in October to give you a faster and more connected experience when interacting with external applications on Facebook. You will soon start to see dialog boxes on application pages from external developers asking you if you would like to receive communication about their applications through your primary email address.”
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 5:56 pm
I didnt think FV ever had any “notifications” anyway >.< ??????
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 5:57 pm
I’m confused about what notifications they’re referring to. Is this the news feed posts where you see other users’ activities? Does anyone know?
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 5:59 pm
No way! That would totally suck! I want those notifications, but I don’t want to have to open 10.000 emails every day! =(
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 6:00 pm
Farmville abused its posting notifications just like they’re abusing us with ridiculously expensive FV cash only items! If they keep this up, I say we all strike until they quit being greedy.
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 6:00 pm
I assumed all gifts, friend requets etc are notifications so everything you get on facebook gift wise etc I assume will be emailed thats what I think……………….
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 6:04 pm
@Emmy please read updated post, I’ve included a little more info. Thanks.
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 6:08 pm
cool! now that I read more, seems what I though “notifications” were, was correct.
woot!
Come to think of it…I think ive only seen them when someone places a “note sign” on my farm. This wont effect us much guys
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 6:16 pm
it’s that little “sign post” at the bottom of your right hand corner, next to facebook chat. in the next 30 days facebook will be getting rid of it, or at least the apps portion of it. remember when someone would get an egg, and the message would pop up , “john doe received an egg and offers thanks”. you won’t see those anymore. it also says things like, “john doe commented on your post” or “john doe likes your post”. those will be gone. zynga’s other games use them a lot, FV seems to have already cut back on “notifications”. so most of you probably won’t even notice. there are more changes to come though, including a “game” page. i think eventually we won’t be seeing posts from apps in the newsfeed.
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 6:29 pm
Whew! The game would become OBSOLETE overnight if you could only receive golden eggs, etc. thru email..
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 6:37 pm
I think it is a good move…
Posts are all i care about when it comes to farmville, notifications from apps were pointless.
but for crying out loud if you take something from a post be it egg, collectibles or adoption either like or comment so others can see how many people have been and taken.
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 6:37 pm
this is really really confusing now to me as I would assume if you send gifts or friend requests that these are notifications.
So can someone can confirm before I decline or accept
GIFTS:- will they still come up on the top right corner with your friend requests as I would have thought these are notifications.
Message such as X has found a golden egg to share these will still go to news feed
I also use restuarnt city is it where the red button highlights red and says Fred has commented on your post or Fred has been to your cafe and helped out……….is that going!!!!!!!!! If it is just that I am fine with that and will say NO
Otherwise I will say YES and use another email account
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 6:38 pm
I see now just that red button at bottom was useful to me when chatting with mates on posts so will not really effect farmville
THANKS
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 6:40 pm
I’m not giving them my authorization to use my email to post notifications to.
I’d bank money on it leading to more crap in my email down the road.
I bet Facebook will soon tell them to take the game requests out to cuz zynga sure likes to flood everyones walls. Those requests (animal adoption, eggs, barn raise etc…) should be in-game things anyways and not fill Facebook user wall pages.
I’d rather have those posts available to game players/neighbors only anyways and right now they are available to everyone.
So I hope Facebook slaps em again and tell them to put that in-game.
Ie: when you load the game zynga should have a page you hit first with all that info.
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 6:41 pm
Do they have a TOS saying that your email isn’t going to be sold to a 3rd party?
They have to say “yes” they won’t otherwise it leaves it open for them to do so.
Think about it.
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 6:42 pm
To me it’s about Facebook’s feed. They want to send this be e-mail to ppl don’t open many windows of facebook.
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Hrm i am no way pressing YES as I dont want loads of emails coming to me my ISP and email account holder would go beserk that when I open my emails there are thousands in it.
By the sounds of it now it is the red button in corner.
I do agree that Zygna should keep it inhouse so when on farmville.com that posts are posted for the game on there and not on facebook but links to facebook on who you know etc
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 6:47 pm
101 FACEBOOK
If your calling it a news feed… it’s not a notification.
If your talking about neighbour requests and gift request that sit in the request section (top right hand side) then no it’s not a notification.
But if you are refering to the little sign that sit’s next to facebook chat that notifies you when you have a comment or feed you petville pet then yes my friend you have a notification.
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 6:47 pm
I never get notifications from Farmville, it really shouldn’t affect you if you say no. The applications that I get notificaitons from are non Zynga – Tiki Farm, Fish World, Island Paradise, etc. Also Superpoke. It will be good not to get those notifications anymore, when I see that little square in my corner I’m hoping it means that someone has commented on my status or wrote something on my wall, so it’s disappointing when it is Island Paradise telling me that someone stole a coconut from my tree.
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 6:48 pm
This is now confusing me again with someone saying its the news feed…..someone should explain this clearly what it really means
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 6:49 pm
That’s too bad—i like the notification option—it will suck when it is gone.
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 7:00 pm
No link sharing, no notifications “really cool” whats next?
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 7:04 pm
Banner contest voting??? It’s 8 Central now…
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 7:14 pm
To be clear: Notifications are shown in the bottom right corner, a red number marking how many unread notifications you have. If you let the mouse cursor “float” over this little box/red number you will even see a descriptive text saying “notifications”. This is just rubbish and I strongly recommend everyone to say NO to all games wishing to send these notes to your email.
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 7:15 pm
when is 24 by 24 coming!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 7:17 pm
I stopped getting notifications that someone helped me out on my farm or fertilized my crops a couple months ago…and they’re talking about the red bubbles at the bottom right corner of your Facebook page…just not gonna bother with those, unless it affects stuff like posts for eggs and that…
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 7:29 pm
You will still get notifications that are from people, just not from applications. It does not in any way affect your news feed or your live feed. The notifications are most definitely the little red box in the bottom right hand corner of your screen. If someone comments on your status, you will still get a notification about that. What you won’t get in the little red box are notifications that say “You have two new living sociat activities” or “So far you have added three new relatives, click here to add more relatives”. These types items will now come to you via email if you select “yes” while on that application. If you select “no”, you won’t receive any direct communication from these applications whatsoever (which I see as a good thing). The other thing to remember (because I think I saw someone above insinuate otherwise), that this is a Facebook change – not a Zynga change or a Farmville change – this is something that will be changing for all Facebook applications. I haven’t received a direct notification from Farmville in quite some time. I had mentioned above, incorrectly, that it was only non-Zynga applications. However, I just looked back through my notification history and I see notifications from Mafia Wars and Petville. It seems like you will have to say “yes” or “no” for each application that you visit. I wonder what the default will be for applications that we don’t actively use, hoping it’s a “no” – half of the applications are ones that I went to once to see what they were about and I never used them again. I’m too lazy to go back and block them, so I see the occasional notification in my little red box, easy enough just to brush over them, but will be better not to have them there at all.
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 7:51 pm
farmgoddess did you get the e-mail with the picture i sent today?
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 8:07 pm
mmm thought that was what they were talking about ,,, thanks Rob
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 8:29 pm
When is the contest? It’s 7 PM Pacific.
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 9:23 pm
thanks ya’ll for clearing this up i was a little confused but now i get it, it seems that some people think that eventually they will be doing away with the posting too but that is going to far. non farmville friends have the option of hiding the posts from those of us that play so why would facebook try to totally take way the posts, this has to do with notifcations that i know i dont really pay attention to, the only time i look at it is when one of my friends made a comment about something i posted
Posted on January 21st, 2010 at 10:02 pm
if you don’t want to use your primary e-mail, make a new one on yahoo or something and use that! man, so many people sound like spoiled teenagers on here. i am going to start calling this country Victimerica! (disclosure – i am not anti-american. many americans are good hard working people who don’t even know they missed a golden egg), thank you.)
Posted on January 22nd, 2010 at 3:59 am
Jas before you are starting slashing people here have you thought for a moment to check out the facts?
you can only recive notifications with the email you are regiestered on facebook so if it’s your primary one – you can’t change it.
so why don’t YOU stop sounding like a spoiled brat ?
Posted on January 22nd, 2010 at 6:44 pm
Thanks Rob, that was helpful.
Posted on January 22nd, 2010 at 7:35 pm
If you get a pop–up, just click on “Cancel” or the “X” in the upper right hand corner of the pop-up.
Posted on January 26th, 2010 at 5:20 am
FARMVILLE, NOW YOU TOTALLY SUCK,:
1. YOU FOOL PEOPLE TO BUY THEIR STUPID FV CASH.
2. YOU USE PHONE LOADS TO FOOL PEOPLE.
3. YOU SUCK MORE.
4. NOBODY WILL PLAY THIS GREED GAME FOREVER.
5. THERE WILL GONNA BE A POINTLESS STRIK.
6. YOU STILL DEFINITELY SUCK..
SUCKSSS>>>>>>
YOU SUCK FARMVILLE.
“GREEDY IS A SIN” ESPECIALLY FOR A STUPID THINGS>.
PS> YOU STILL SUCK!!
Posted on February 25th, 2010 at 4:05 pm
i know this feed is not for this but i have tryed to get a answer every where i can not get farm ville on my home computer and have to go on at friends and reletives hopeing that i will be able to in the future please help farm freek as i have tryed every thing to get through to you and sort this problem out i use a usb dongle on voda fone please help thanks
Posted on August 24th, 2011 at 4:21 pm
I want to post to my Farmville friends only and quit annoying my other FB friends. How can I do this? Thanks.