Request a specific message privacy setting for a single application

Question

As such, facebook has just implemented this privacy setting for each application for all applications, as announced here .

It does not seem to have any documentation besides this blog post.

I am interested in explicitly asking the user for a specific parameter. Now it defaults to ALL_FRIENDS, but my application is currently hosted with EVERYONE privacy settings.

In fact, my application crashed due to this change; I just opened it by asking this question .

Is there a way to request a specific privacy setting (in my case, Public or EVERYONE) at login, similar to the way we request all other permissions?

Answer 1

Well, after checking several applications, it seems that they changed the default setting to “Public” for new installations. I looked at some Zynga apps, and there seems to be no way to indicate what level of message privacy in apps. (if anyone has information on undocumented functions, this is Zynga) I also do not see any way to query to find out what the user has set for him.

edit: did a little more testing ... It seems that the default value depends on the account. This is similar to the same access as the default when you do the wiring on the wall.