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by mooted1 4597 days ago
I'm usually pretty generous with Facebook login and I find the paranoia surrounding it ridiculous, but when your site posted directly to my wall THE MOMENT I SIGNED UP without any kind of notice, I was fucking incensed. Not only was it unsolicited, it was spam that offered no compelling content except a link to your site. It doesn't help that you have no option for turning this permission off.

Out of hundreds of facebook logins, Joday.com was the first site I manually removed from my account.

F- not visiting again.

1 comments

Hi,

1. One of the reason for using Facebook login was to allow user to decide what information they want to share including permission to share on user wall. 2. having said that, we will try to find a way to make it more explicit. 3. email us if you want to remove your a/c from joday.

thanks,

I regularly give apps permission to post on my wall, because almost every app will ask me before posting. In addition, the posts usually contain relevant content: spotify posts songs I listen to, goodreads posts book updates. Your app posted an advertisement to my wall without any prompting. This is so inappropriate (and speaking from experience, far from the most effective way to use your fb access), it bewilders me your startup thought this was a good idea.
Currently, we post on wall for #1. when user join, as you can imagine the algorithm would not have much relevant data about user and to get user started it put random but definitely a trending/popular video. #2. when user share a video on joday by clicking share button.

brining relavant content is probably the most difficult problem and its never guaranteed to be accurate... our goal is to fail fast, learn from user behavior to serve more relevant next time...