Facebook Aims to Stop Mini-Feed Spam

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Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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Facebook Aims to Stop Mini-Feed Spam
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Facebook announced very early this morning that they are going to allow users more feedback options regarding the items that get published about them, especially in the Mini-Feed.

In case you're one of the five or so folks left who hasn't used Facebook yet, third-party applications have the ability to publish stories to the Mini-Feed on your behalf, either as a result of actions from within Facebook, the Third-Party application, or from some action performed somewhere else being tracked by a Facebook application.

Now, though, users can review actions published to the mini-feed in new ways: users are able hit the "Hide Story" option like they always have, but also available is "I didn't do this", which when selected also provides an additional option of removing the application entirely.

Obviously, this will curtail some of the over-zealousness of some applications to behave in somewhat shady, "spammy" ways. Facebook hopes that it will also improve the quality, accuracy and relevancy of the Mini-Feed and News Feed stories.

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