Re:Being Eric Schmidt (On Facebook)
by robryan on Monday October 11, 2010 @02:40AM
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It's a tradeoff really, had they required an email validation before any actions there would definitely be a drop off rate in completing signups, especially early on when people didn't have large social graphs on facebook to pull them in.
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It's not a tradeoff, but an externality paid with time instead of money. Facebook won't suffer any inconvenience, only non-users of Facebook will.
Add this to their opt-out by default when adding new features, and Facebook is becoming more and more a spam platform.