Social Media & Technology Consulting

I’m not a big fan of games on Facebook.  Never played Mafia Wars, never farmed on Farmville and I’m really not a big Poker.

Ok, are you done snickering about that last one?  Good.  Let’s move on…

The truth is – I’d much rather we had more of a real relationship.  More like a “Call me, Email me, Tweet me, let’s go have beers” kind of relationship.  That’s just me.  So when you throw food at me, I’m going to look to block that application in the future.

No offense, I love a good order of Garlic Fries (goes well with a good IPA) and I know you are just having fun but to me it’s is noise and I’m looking for more signal.

Big Props to Food Fights as they also provided me a way out.  I can click on the link below that says “[hide all posts from this app]” Yay!

That link leads me to an instruction screen with a link to their application page.

An Application Page looks a lot like a Fan Page.

You don’t have to Become a Fan.  All you have to do is click on the link to “Block Application”.

So what do you do about the the Applications that have no obvious way out?

First of all, I would hold a witch trial for the heartless applications developer.  After he (or she) is burned at the stake, just pop over to http://www.facebook.com/apps/directory.php and do a quick search for the application name.  Find the Application Page for the evil application and Block away!

BTW: This doesn’t stop everything.  There’s always other ways for peeps to add to your  “noise”.  For instance if you tag me in a photo that really isn’t me I’ll get a notification for that.  No worries, I have a greasemonkey script for that and we’ll be unfriended the next time I sign in.  That’s fodder for a future post.

So what’s the most annoying Facebook item for you?

Tagged as: application name, Facebook, Fan Page, farmville, food fights, mafia wars, super poke

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