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Why I'm Done With Facebook

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It's always a small group of people in my friends list who think it is a great idea to spam everyone they know with this crap.

There really should be a setting to ignore all application requests.

I get a huge amount of friends who spam me with this crap.

lmao whats even worse is when you're trying to find someone's wall because they have 50bajillion applications on their frickin page.

Reality Check: nobody honestly cares about your honesty box! Pirates and ninjas can go to hell! What the hell is the point of a super wall?! I'm not your top friend? Throw your ugly pet rabbits into that pot, there are homeless kids to feed. No, I am not interested in you, I am straight thank you very much.

Yeah half those applications are ridiculous. Many people liked facebook cause it was simple/clean, now its almost as bad as myspace.

Yeah it would be a lot better if on your friends profiles it would only show those the apps that they have installed that you also have installed. At least that way those pirate/ninja/etc. people can stick together and worry about which zombie has the most points.

Besides, most of those apps like honesty box require you to install it before you can use it anyway, which makes it entirely useless to me.

I'm tired of giving away all my information to any app that wants it. The whole site has massive security issues to give out your personal info at the drop of a hat. You can't even specify which info an app can use. They all can see all of your information.

Yeah, it's terrible, but at least most of this crap seems to stay within FB, rather than spilling over into my inbox.

Actually, by calling it 'crap', I'm probably revealing that I'm not in the target demographic.

Ooh, shiny widgets!!

The real facebook apocalypse will come when they let users theme their profiles. Suddenly there will be animated gifs and marquee text everywhere... and tons of pink and neon green text on black and purple backgrounds.

I think a lot of people like those apps.

True, but that's the problem.

The solutions are to:

1) Block every app you're invited to

2) Remove the minority group who send you all the invites

Both solutions combined work well for me

But you shouldn't have to do that! The thing just has a bad design that they can fix by letting people elect to ignore all requests. Then you wouldn't need to do any work!

edit: I'm down-voted for arguing against a recommendation to do the exact opposite that the site was designed for: networking with friends? While the parents suggestion is practical and what I will probably do, that doesn't mean I'm wrong about the site having poor design choices for settings.

I agree that you shouldn't have to resort to my tactics, but that's the only way right now

My list is longer then posted screen shot. My name starts with "A", I think its easy to select me when it says "send to 10 friends". I looked everywhere on facebook to just block all application invites.

Want to leave Facebook, but I check it everyday hoping some random girl will poke me!

funny some random hot girl i dont know friend requested me a couple weeks ago, naturally i accepted because she is hot, now she spams me with application invites every day

I think it might be an elaborate scam by one of the app developers

well, give her a turing test and see where it goes...

Can hot girls pass turing tests?

I have anecdotal evidence that they can't, but then again, there are a lot of sororities on the campus I attended...

Except the page hasn't looked like that in about a month with the new UI tweak.

What, the weekly "Why I'm Done With Facebook" post, on Friday?

You're 2 days late this week.

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