i appreciate your response on this. but since kongregate is about gaming, which is one of the most immersive experience online, is it reasonable to expect people to pay attention to a little popup at the corner of the screen, leave the game and read/click on the notification? i think that you have a reasonable expectations that most people will not drop their game to respond to it, and that’s what the design feels to me as a user: sneaking an ad by my attention.

i do understand your motivation of wanting to spread the kongregate message to everyone possible, you offer a great gaming site. but i do think there is a line of reasonableness that you need to watch out for. if i just signed up and played one game on kongregate, decided that i don’t like it, will my name be used by kongregate as an endorser? i don’t think that’s a fair use of my name for kongregate’s bidding.

last but not least, I have a lot more issue with facebook on this experience. they are letting spam/bacn through to not just me, but to my friends. if this is what facebook is going to do to monetize, then i expect alot of people will be up in arms.

We’re very sorry you felt used by this. While we realize this is a little on the intrusive side, since Facebook is about telling people what you’re doing we thought that most people would be comfortable with it since you’re notified clearly about what is happening, and can opt out at any stage of the process.

Next time a little notification pops if you choose No, Don’t Send and then Never Ask Me Again and it will block this forever (on Kongregate at least).

For the story that is already on your minifeed, there’s an x next to it that you can use to delete it.

You can also control this from Facebook’s privacy settings. Click privacy, then external websites, and you’ll see controls by external site there.

I agree that we should add an additional way to opt out on Kongregate itself, so that you don’t have to wait for a notification to appear, and we’ll consider other modifications of the program based on people’s feedback.

Emily Greer
Co-Founder, Kongregate