Ping goes your phone, you pick it up to read the Facebook notification “Steve Adams has invited you to game of Candy Crush Saga”. Out through the window goes your smartphone as a result of this hundredth message from Facebook that makes you wonder if you really should deactivate your account. The game requests on Facebook is one of the most complained about features on Facebook, and Mark Zuckerberg says he’s going to fix it.
Speaking at the Indian Institute of Technology in Dehli, India, Zuckerberg said he noticed the Candy Crush issue was becoming serious after it became the most upvoted question in an online thread, and asked the developer platform lead to figure out a solution for the problem.
“I sent a message to the person who runs the team in charge of our developer platform, and I said that by the time I do this Townhall Q&A, it would be good if we had a solution to this problem. She emailed me later that night, and said there are some tools — that are kind of outdated — that allow people to send invitations to people who’ve never used a game, and don’t play games on Facebook. We hadn’t prioritized shutting that down, we just had other priorities. But if this is the top thing that people care about, we’ll prioritize that and do it. So we’re doing it!”
– Mark Zuckerberg.
Facebook hasn’t yet announced a date stamp on the fix but we can pray and hope it lands in the next few months, if not weeks.
You can watch the whole Q&A session here.
