06.05.2013 15:06 Uhr, Quelle: The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Path update enhances privacy, removes "find Facebook friends" functionality

This past week, Path made headlines when it was reported that the popular messaging and photo sharing app was aggressively 'recruiting' new users by sending out sign-up invitations via text, and in some cases phone, to users' contact lists. The reason behind the application's ostensibly strange behavior is that the default setting is such that the app reaches out to a user's Facebook friends and asks them to try out Path. Consequently, if users want to avoid spamming their friends, they have to pro-actively toggle the option off. As one might expect, Path wasn't entirely apologetic, noting that the process is meant to simplify the friend-finding process,

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