Facebook Platform Policy Team wants us to remove "Reshared ..." from user messages. "This goes against our policy", they say.


Facebook Platform Policy Team wants us to remove "Reshared ..." from user messages. "This goes against our policy", they say.

You must not pre-fill any of the fields associated with the following products, unless the user manually generated the content earlier in the workflow: Stream stories (user_message parameter for Facebook.streamPublish and FB.Connect.streamPublish, and message parameter for stream.publish), Photos (caption), Videos (description), Notes (title and content), Links (comment), and Jabber/XMPP. (FPP IV.2)

They wants us to take care of these by Monday May 20 by 5pm (GMT).

I guess we will have to or they will shutdown the Friends+Me FB application and that would mean no reposts to Facebook.

We will not be able to keep current form of Facebook reposts of Google+ reshares and we apologize for that.

UPDATE: Change deployed :(

Comments

  1. Greg HortinMay 17, 2013 at 7:56 AM

    If the reshare via Friends+me gets shut down it will mean a lot less posts of Facebook for me.

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  2. Kim Beasley, MBAMay 17, 2013 at 7:58 AM

    Greg Hortin I agree.

    Friends+Me so to make sure I understand, they what the top part circled removed. Can it be added to the text under the content so that it's not as obvious?

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  3. Friends+MeMay 17, 2013 at 8:12 AM

    Kim Beasley sounds reasonable. We will try that and see how it works.

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  4. Kim Beasley, MBAMay 17, 2013 at 8:12 AM

    Friends+Me Awesome!

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  5. Pamela ReynosoMay 17, 2013 at 8:45 AM

    Interesting in that we (users)  obviously have no problem with the words being there- we agree by default via using it.

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  6. Kim Beasley, MBAMay 17, 2013 at 8:47 AM

    Pamela Reynoso I think it is more a problem of Facebook not wanting G+ anywhere noticeable on their website. :)

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  7. Alois BělaškaMay 17, 2013 at 8:56 AM

    I think Kim Beasley is right. It is a cold war :)

    ReplyDelete
  8. Carole MercédèsMay 17, 2013 at 8:59 AM

    I trust you'll find a solution ;-)

    ReplyDelete
  9. Alois BělaškaMay 17, 2013 at 9:04 AM

    Thank you Carole Rigonalli Right now we had to do as they said. But I believe we will make a lemonade from those lemons once again :)

    ReplyDelete
  10. Carole MercédèsMay 17, 2013 at 9:07 AM

    That is just the right attitude! !!

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  11. Pamela ReynosoMay 17, 2013 at 9:10 AM

    Ahhh- in my rush I misread and thought g+ had the issue. Makes sense now. :)

    ReplyDelete
  12. HoJoMoMay 22, 2013 at 2:06 AM

    Unfortunately for Facebook we are obliged to use them, but we are NOT obliged to do as they say! Let's just make G+ bigger & bigger to get our own back! ;) (No cat & dog pictures though please!)

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  13. Pamela ReynosoMay 29, 2013 at 6:41 PM

    I have a FB Friends+Me question...One thing I really don't like (but understand that that may be no fix for) is that one posting to FB through Friends+Me  makes all my FB posts from there on out public. I clearly don't mind the posts F+M takes to FB being public, but it changes my default settings for all of FB.  Am I just stuck with it? I'd love it if you said no.

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  14. Friends+MeMay 30, 2013 at 3:30 AM

    Pamela Reynoso if I understand you correctly you want Friends+Me Facebook reposts to have a different visibility than public, for example "Friends Only"? Am I right?

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  15. Pamela ReynosoJune 2, 2013 at 10:12 PM

    Not exactly... I'm content to have whatever I post publicly on G+ and which goes to FB continue to be public.

    My issue is that it appears when even one post is made public through Friends+Me , it then makes every single post from there on out on FB public. In other words, it alters my general FB settings. I don;t like that. I have to go back and change or remember to change my settings for posts I don't want public. It's kind of a pain, especially if I'm mobile as I don't think I can change post settings from the app.

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  16. Friends+MeJune 3, 2013 at 12:50 AM

    Pamela Reynoso this is weird, Friends+Me FB application is not able to change any of your general FB settings. Looks like a bug on a Facebook side. Friends+Me simply uses public Facebook API to create posts as many other applications do. 

    No other Friends+Me user reported similar behavior. What other applications that interact with your Facebook account do you use?

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  17. Pamela ReynosoJune 3, 2013 at 7:13 AM

    I don't use any other application, actually. I refuse to do things through FB, generally speaking. I'll test it more today.... Friends+Me

    ReplyDelete
  18. Friends+MeJune 3, 2013 at 7:17 AM

    Pamela Reynoso please do, thank you.

    ReplyDelete

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