Saturday, October 8, 2011

How Not To Make Music Social: The Way Spotify And Facebook Did It

Last week there was much talk about the new installation of Facebook, which allow for better integration and sharing of all people do, music is a key example. Whether or not a good idea, I have no idea. To be honest, I could do long-term sense - but how it has implemented a disaster seems to me, as I discovered when I logged in Spotify today. It seems that Spotify is bothering many people, which requires a Facebook user name to use the service now. I have a minor problem with which I do with the fact that Spotify box appeared telling me that I had to connect to Facebook, but what is all clear what it meant. Note that Spotify

can
Details from what I'm listening to others, but does not explain what that means. Do you want to share everything with each game automatically? Will I be able to share? Will I be the option that I share with you? It is not clear at all. Worse, there is nowhere any explanation of how or where I can get more information. Instead, Spotify will only be open as usual.
Spotify turns out that does not begin to share everything the game on Facebook, without making it clear to the user who did this. I could not find this information on my own profile. Only after I asked a friend and Facebook told me what I had heard that I knew the information was shared. Worse, the remote, it is not at all clear either. Fortunately Lifehacker explains how to stop all spam with what you play in Spotify. You can do this by unchecking the box next to it makes no sense at all:




If you can not see, which says: But "Get personal advice by sending the music that touches Facebook Open Graph". What does "personal recommendations" have to do with anything? Why can not that Spotify sincere and honest and say, "spam all your friends on Facebook while you play?" Again, I recognize that some people want to do, and I have no problem with people choose to do so. My problem is with the way Facebook and Spotify implemented which is not remotely clear what you do. Given similar problems with Facebook in the past (hello, Beacon) you'd think the company recognizes the importance of

clear and
fully in advance what information is shared with and how to control it. Instead, it seems that quite the opposite.

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