Finally! Block Applications on Facebook

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15

May



I have a lot of friends gushing over popular social networking site Facebook but I can’t for the life of me figure out what’s so great about it. It’s cluttered, difficult to navigate and then, there are the applications. I’ve written about my dislike of Facebook apps earlier and was looking for a way to stop receiving invites for them.

Well, my prayers have been answered somewhat. I can’t stop receiving invites but I can block them so I don’t have ten friends sending me invitations for the same app over and over again. To do this, head over the ‘Requests’ page on your Facebook profile. There, you’ll see a list of all the invitations you received. Under the ‘Accept’ and ‘Ignore’ buttons is a small option that says ‘Block this application‘. Click on it and you’re done.

Considering the sheer number of invitations I’ve received, It will take me forever to block them all. I think a better option is to ignore all invitations from friends who keep sending you rubbish. This way, you cut it off at the source.

Has the Facebook application madness driven you crazy yet? What’s your strategy on dealing with them? Does it want to make you abandon Facebook altogether? Let me know in the comments.


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Arlo says:

Hey. I love Facebook because everyone I know is accessible there no matter where they are physically in the world.

I HATE facebook because of the applications. I don’t even go to peoples profiles any more if I can help it. One guy I know has literally 50 applications on his page. What a mess!

I was waiting a long time for the ability to block application requests as well.

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Pi says:

Man, I was waiting for something like this to start. I’ve got a ton of useless apps.

Roman ShaRP says:

Facebook isn’t popular with Slavic bloggers. When I falled in reading IT news sites, I even created filter in Feedreader for quick killing all news related to some companies, and Facebook among them.

lori says:

What Facebook needs is two choices for users:

A) You can choose to block individual applications

B) You can choose to block ALL applications, except for those you explicitly add — an opt-in option, so to speak

It’s great you can block applications, but there are so many new apps sprouting up all the time, it’s like pulling a couple weeds per day blocking the apps, while 20 more weeds are growing over there. For those who have lives outside of the computer, it just does not work.

I have about 100 apps blocked already and right now I have 600 — yes, that’s right, SIX HUNDRED invitations waiting for me to take action. Lovely.

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