Facebook To Reduce Unwanted 'Candy Crush' Invitations, Says Zuckerberg [VIDEO]

Facebook chief executive and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg recently hosted a Townhall Q&A at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi, India. During the town hall event, Zuckerberg was asked questions about why the company has so much interest in India, how the unconnected population can get on the Internet, how Oculus Rift will be integrated into the social network and what is his opinion of net neutrality. However, one of the questions that received the most applause was about how to get rid of Candy Crush invitations.

Candy Crush Invitations

The moderator of the townhall told Zuckerberg “So this is a question which lots and lots of people want answers to. It’s one of the top voted questions on the thread. And I think it’s a serious one, deserving a serious answer. And that is ‘I seriously don’t want to get any more invitations on Candy Crush, how do I stop getting it?’” Zuckerberg said that questions like these are what makes the town hall Q&As very useful.


“I saw this question and that it was the top voted question on my thread so 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 town hall Q&A, I think it would be good if we had a solution to this problem. So we do!” said Zuckerberg at the Townhall Q&A. “So she e-mailed me later that night and was like ‘alright look, there are some tools that are kind of outdated that allow people to send invitations to people who have never used a game and have gotten a lot of invitations in the past, but don’t play games on Facebook. And we hadn’t prioritized shutting that down because we just had other priorities. But if this is the top thing that people care about, then we’ll prioritize that and we’ll do it.’ So we’re doing it!”

Vision Behind Oculus Rift

Last year, Facebook acquired virtual reality headset company Oculus Rift for $2 billion. How does Oculus Rift fit into the whole vision? At the town hall, Zuckerberg said that one of the trends that Facebook saw is that users are finding richer mediums to share. Now the primary way to share an experience online is video, but Zuckerberg believes that video is not the end of the line because it is still 2D and people want an “even richer medium. You want to feel like you’re there. And that is what virtual reality and augmented reality can do.”

Zuckerberg cheerfully talked about how he and his wife are expecting a daughter and would like his parents to be “there” for the baby’s first steps.

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