In a move that is pleasing many of its users, Facebook is shutting down its API that lets users share their friends’ data to third-party apps, TechCrunch reports. Facebook had already disallowed apps developed after April 20, 2014 to do so, and, starting this week, no apps will share data in such a way. A Facebook spokesperson said, “if people don’t feel comfortable using Facebook and specifically logging in Facebook and using Facebook in apps, we don’t have a platform, we don’t have developers.” Facebook came to the decision after extensive research and interviewing users, concluding users would feel better with more control over their data. The spokesperson said when users are confident, “they feel happier and use our stuff more, and that’s what we’re trying to achieve.”
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