...What the hell, Facebook?

[haggholm]

Via Facebook’s internal notifications:

We have decided to focus on something more exciting. New Layout Vote\'s name and functionality will be changed next week to SpeedDate, a fun way to meet new people. Data entered into the original app won't be used anymore. Check it out, and if you want you can opt out here. 13 minutes ago

I can’t make up my mind on what this might be. Idiotic joke? Peculiar hack? Astonishingly moronic decision? The notion of transforming the poll that revealed that 94% of their user base were displeased with their redesign into a “SpeedDate” application is rather surreal.

Update: I was going to write another post lambasting Facebook for this, but I did my fact-checking and found that (contrary to my impression, and popular belief) the New Layout Vote was not developed by the Facebook team itself—it was a third-party app. It’s still sleazy and a cheap tactic to harvest—effectively—user accounts to spam, but anger should be directed at SpeedDate and whoever wrote the app, not the Facebook team.

Comments

[ju-ju-master.livejournal.com]

Apparently SpeedDate has done this before - they buy popular aps then switch them to their own. At least this time they said something first, but it's still ridiculous.