Goodbye Facebook Notifications

According to the Facebook Developer blog, application notifications within Facebook will come to an end tomorrow (March 1, 2010). For those who encountered massive amounts of notifications from their friends each time they signed into Facebook, this is probably good news. Yeah, no more FarmVille notifications! But you’ve probably already figured out how to hide those . For those who do utilize Facebook apps, the results are probably mixed.

Why is Facebook killing app notifications? to simplify Facebook & streamline communication. Part of this effort to simplify communication is the Applications and Games dashboard, the “Add a Bookmark” button (which I love), and the end of notifications.

Now, developers will have 3 options to communicate to users:

• Counters
• News within the Apps and Games dashboard
• Email

Personally, I hope developers will choose to utilize counters (which will be the most similar to how notifications worked before), but I’ve already experienced several apps asking for my permission to use my email address. My fear is that many apps will abuse the email option and reek havoc on my inbox (not that it’s in great shape already). Hopefully I’m wrong, but if app developers mismanage email communication it could really turn people off to their application.

What are your thoughts on no more app notifications? Thrilled or scared for what’s ahead? Let me know in the comments!