App notifications on Facebook will stop on March 1

Facebook has announced that app notifications will be discontinued effective from March 1.

The wheels for this move had been rolling for some time, in an effort to reduce the amount of spam on ths social networking site.

Although users will receive this piece of news with much delight, the same cannot be said about developers who have used the notification system as their primary source of growing an app on the social newtorking site.

“When we launched Facebook Platform in 2007 there were just 40 million users on Facebook,” reads a note on the Facebook developer blog.

“Since then, in less than three years, more than 350 million users have joined Facebook, and more than one million developers have created more than 500,000 applications.

“With this additional scale came greater complexity. We announced last October a set of efforts to help make interactions with applications more streamlined, clear, and less spammy for users.”

This is expected to be put into practice from the beginning of next month.