Technology reporter, BBC News, San Francisco
 Facebook will give developers good and bad rankings |
Social networking site Facebook is introducing a ranking system for good and bad application developers.
Announced at F8, the Facebook developers conference in San Francisco, it aims to improve the quality of applications on offer.
Dubbed Application Verification it will promote "secure, respectful and transparent" add-ons to the site.
"We haven't done enough to reward the good or punish the abusive," said Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg.
"We're going to have to find a way to ensure the applications that provide the most long term value are the ones that are succeeding," he said.
As Facebook has grown many believe it has struggled to stamp down on applications that annoy or deceive users. Common abuses include spamming people with unnecessary notifications or sharing data about users who wanted to it to stay private.
BY-BBC NEWS
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