It was unable to do so when I tried. How motivated should I be to give this any more of my attention?
I haven’t heard of anybody else having this problem in this case (but also not of anybody else explicitly doing this part).
The only thing I can immediately think of is that you might have some general setting to do with Apps disabled. If you don’t have any Apps on your account, then there’s a good chance this is the problem, and I think you should be motivated to try temporarily turning on Platform by turning on Apps on the first setting on this page. Otherwise, I’d say it’s your call. Thanks for trying, any which way.
Also, why does Stellar want access to my Facebook account?
I do not know. But when I recentishly turned on Platform to allow an App to integrate, I concluded (as someone who is inclined to be somewhat conservative about such things) that there was nothing to worry about if it was temporary and there was no immediate damage while the App was permitted. (If it does something like post embarrassing things to your timeline or someone else’s, it would show up in your Facebook Activity Log. (Mine hasn’t shown anything for when the Stellar app was integrated.)
Is there any danger of it spamming everyone on my friends list with ads for Stellar?
Nobody who reported back on Facebook saying they’d done it complained of anything untoward happening. It’s conceivable that integrating the app even temporarily could mean that your friends see slightly more Stellar apps (if such things even exist) instead of the usual types of ads they see, if the ad algorithm took it into account or something? But I’m guessing that’s not what you mean, that you meant more like Stellar making posts or sending messages via your account to friends, which doesn’t seem to have happened to anybody who claimed the Stellar.
Thanks for your comment; I shall update the post with my advice about Platform in case it helps anybody else.
Most of the effects of allowing an app access are permanent insofar as most of the effects are them scraping your data, which they have no reason not to keep.
The only thing I can immediately think of is that you might have some general setting to do with Apps disabled. If you don’t have any Apps on your account, then there’s a good chance this is the problem, and I think you should be motivated to try temporarily turning on Platform by turning on Apps on the first setting on this page.
On looking on Facebook, I see it has managed to add the Stellar app. But still, when I try to “connect with Facebook” it opens a popup window which immediately goes away, and it reports “Oops! Please verify your Facebook account and try again.” Which I have done (“verifying” apparently means “tell Facebook your mobile number”) but with no change. Well, maybe I’ll contact Stellar about that.
I haven’t heard of anybody else having this problem in this case (but also not of anybody else explicitly doing this part).
The only thing I can immediately think of is that you might have some general setting to do with Apps disabled. If you don’t have any Apps on your account, then there’s a good chance this is the problem, and I think you should be motivated to try temporarily turning on Platform by turning on Apps on the first setting on this page. Otherwise, I’d say it’s your call. Thanks for trying, any which way.
I do not know. But when I recentishly turned on Platform to allow an App to integrate, I concluded (as someone who is inclined to be somewhat conservative about such things) that there was nothing to worry about if it was temporary and there was no immediate damage while the App was permitted. (If it does something like post embarrassing things to your timeline or someone else’s, it would show up in your Facebook Activity Log. (Mine hasn’t shown anything for when the Stellar app was integrated.)
Nobody who reported back on Facebook saying they’d done it complained of anything untoward happening. It’s conceivable that integrating the app even temporarily could mean that your friends see slightly more Stellar apps (if such things even exist) instead of the usual types of ads they see, if the ad algorithm took it into account or something? But I’m guessing that’s not what you mean, that you meant more like Stellar making posts or sending messages via your account to friends, which doesn’t seem to have happened to anybody who claimed the Stellar.
Thanks for your comment; I shall update the post with my advice about Platform in case it helps anybody else.
Most of the effects of allowing an app access are permanent insofar as most of the effects are them scraping your data, which they have no reason not to keep.
On looking on Facebook, I see it has managed to add the Stellar app. But still, when I try to “connect with Facebook” it opens a popup window which immediately goes away, and it reports “Oops! Please verify your Facebook account and try again.” Which I have done (“verifying” apparently means “tell Facebook your mobile number”) but with no change. Well, maybe I’ll contact Stellar about that.