Wednesday, February 12, 2014

FACEBOOK DETERMINES APP RATINGS

Facebook has launched App Center, a new section of the social networks where they have collected all the applications that can interact with its systems. The goal is to make it easier to search and install the app to your account. App Center is also used to keep track of installed applications and see their warnings and requests in a single page on the social network.

The new section of Facebook has introduced graphics which are substantially as essential as the rest of the social network. The left column shows a list with different categories to find applications. The categories include, among other things, games, entertainment, photos, sports and news. Clicking on a section in the column on the right shows a list of apps ordered according to particular filters: Top rated, recommended, popular and friends. This filter is used to show only the applications (in a specific category) that have been used more recently by members of Facebook friends. The left column is always present and enables new searches at any time.

Currently, there is no proper way of rating an app on demand. Usually, at random users are provoked to provide star ratings through various modules. With this rating style, manipulation of user’s and developer’s can be reduced. The product manager at Facebook told Appostroiphic , it is considering new options which will allow app ratings directly from App Center page.

These ratings will take an App to a better placement in App Center; which means that developers need to know the way how to get positive ratings. However, there is no defined way to rate Facebook app, by the time it will go over various ways. The ratings are listed either in the News Feed on the hover cards or on the App Center page where users can not give their own ratings.


Appostrophic believes that to keep the rating platform fair for all developers, Facebook apps should keep this random sampling approach and allows its users to rate apps through modules in App Center.

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