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I implemented a custom friends selector to send app invite requests for my website to a user's FB friends. But that show no of limitations, first that invitation may be sent to at max 50 people. I have seen games on FB sending app invite requests to user's all friends, wont that same kind of invite work for my website ?

Secondly Using the requests dialog with friend selector, there is no way to select all friends for invite. How could I make it better towards sending app invites to user's all friends ?

At some places in the FB devlopers docs, they mention explicity games & apps on facebook. If I am a website with a FB canvas page as well. Can I use the services availble for games on facebook? (Is it Legal ?)

Rajat Gupta
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App requests are for games, not for sharing a website.

The only serious (and not spammy) way to share a website on Facebook is to use the Send or Share Dialogs:

You may want to read this too: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/faq#invite_to_app

andyrandy
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    thanx for the link, i´ll add it to the answer – andyrandy Sep 26 '14 at 20:15
  • but I've seen many popular websites exploiting this like glassdoor, meritnation & so many others ?? – Rajat Gupta Sep 26 '14 at 20:16
  • "others do it too" is not a good argument ;) - and exploiting is never a good idea. – andyrandy Sep 26 '14 at 20:16
  • I mean to ask if is it not allowed(legally) or is it just not designed for that use ? – Rajat Gupta Sep 26 '14 at 20:17
  • first of all, it´s bad practice and annoying for users to send them app requests for websites - they ARE for games. app requests always go to the canvas page first, you can´t just link to your website. and creating a canvas page just to redirect to an external website is definitely not allowed - so yeah, it´s not allowed :) – andyrandy Sep 26 '14 at 20:19
  • i just checked out glassdoor does it & clicking on app request generated notification/app takes to canvas page which redirects to main website\ – Rajat Gupta Sep 26 '14 at 20:22
  • as i said: "others do it too" is not a good argument - and it´s not allowed, so don´t do it ;) > https://developers.facebook.com/policy/ – andyrandy Sep 26 '14 at 20:25