Facebook No Longer Likes iLike Alerts

Facebook doesn’t seem to like iLike anymore, as the social-networking site is restricting the MySpace-owned music service from displaying users’ music data in their profiles and using Facebook notifications to alert them about upcoming concerts, TechCrunch reported.

iLike sent the following notification to its users on Facebook:

Due to upcoming Facebook changes, your Music data on Facebook won’t show on your profile and you’ll stop getting concert alerts. Take this step to save your music data.

iLike is requesting users’ email addresses for concert notifications.

A Facebook spokesperson told TechCrunch:

We didn’t do anything specific to iLike as the headline (Facebook Strikes Back at iLike: No-Spam Policy Cancels Concert Alerts) implies, and alerts are not going away, they’re simply shifting away from their current channel to ones we think will be more effective for both users and developers.

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