14 DAY TRIAL // Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, has been traveling through India for the past few days, and during a town hall Q&A session, the social network's boss acknowledged that Candy Crush is not one of his favorite apps due to the notifications the game sends, which have now reached a mythical level of annoyance.
The good news is that Zuckerberg said that the type of harassment these apps have been putting users under for the past years is about to stop.
"I saw this top-voted question on my [Q&A] thread and sent a message to the person in charge of the developer platform to get rid of this issue," said Zuckerberg, making a reference to fact that the "How can I stop getting Candy Crush invites?" question was voted by more than 7,500 users who wanted to see him answer it during the Q&A.
Zuckerberg says Facebook is prioritizing shutting down game notifications
"There are some tools that are outdated which let people send people invites. We hadn't prioritized shutting [them] down, but we are doing it now,” Zuckerberg also said.
Our reaction to hearing this may be just like yours, and that's a simple exhale, followed by the slow murmuring of "Thank God!" or "It took a while!"
Analyzing Zuckerberg's answer even deeper, we see that Mark wasn't talking specifically about Candy Crush, and the "tools" he was referring to is actually the platform that lets game developers send any notifications.
What this means is that all games that send any type of invites to users will be covered, not just Candy Crash.
If you want to watch the entire hour-long town hall Q&A with Mark at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi, the video is embedded below.