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- JayCruz, on 02/07/2008, -2/+146Yes, please. I don't want to hug you. Or zombie attack you.
- punkcat, on 02/07/2008, -0/+61you have been invited to join Cool Friends.
you have been invited to join Super Friends.
you have been invited to join Best Friends.
you have been invited to join Super Cool Best Friends. - InfamousAtheist, on 02/07/2008, -0/+46'm glad FB is doing something about the lame app overkill. They seem to be pretty good about adapting the site and their policies to improve the user experience when it suffers, like when they introduced that ridiculous tracking tool that followed you around the web whether you were logged in or not. Reactions like this in favor of the users should keep people around and answer some questions about their long-term viability.
Oh, and Vampires can suck it. - bryanricker, on 02/07/2008, -1/+30Do people still use myspace?
what a waste of internet. - camiloteram, on 02/07/2008, -0/+26Facebook has become a daily ritual of ignoring application requests... they remind me alot of spam.
Good riddance! - unfknreal, on 02/07/2008, -0/+24While they're at it, can they remove all those stupid apps that require me to invite 20 friends before I can use them? That's the worst thing ever.
- bulletseed, on 02/07/2008, -0/+23uhm.. "sophisticated" and "myspace" in the same sentence? LMAO
- mojaam, on 02/07/2008, -1/+20The reward is more notification allocation? I'm a little confused, notifications according to facebook: http://www.facebook.com/help.php?hq=notification is a way of letting you know about your requests, as well as other actions that involve you on Facebook. Typically, apps that don't bug you with notifications are the good ones so rewarding them with ability to send more notifications might persuade them to actually send more notifications, and thus make them annoying. We'll see how it goes.
- geekfrom99, on 02/07/2008, -0/+15@"Maybe they could get together with Robert Plante from Led Zep, call it FacePlante"
how long have you been waiting to get that gem out? - heroesdietrying, on 02/07/2008, -1/+16Hopefully this will cut down on all the ridiculous spam.
- Myonosken, on 02/07/2008, -0/+14Just make it never send a request again once you've denied it once. Resolved (allowing a user to hide it from any profiles they visit from then on might be nice too)
- Roryking, on 02/07/2008, -1/+15It would seem the real cure is to eliminate stupid people, rather than stupid apps. Let's see someone script that up.
- mt066, on 02/07/2008, -0/+13There has been an influx of stupid quizzes that won't give you the results unless you spam the application to 15 of your friends. I know this because I have been invited to "What kind of drunk are you??" like 7 or 8 times now. It was rumored that some companies do this to collect your personal info and sell/observe it for marketing purposes (you have to check that 'OK to access my info' box to add the quiz).
- marshallk, on 02/07/2008, -4/+15No it's not, it's got a lot of potential if they could wrangle the annoying apps in.
- Grjemo, on 02/07/2008, -0/+10They shouldn't be allowed to do that.
- 80hd, on 02/07/2008, -0/+9Everybody should send a feature request for the option to disable application invitations.
Even better would be a way to hide applications on other peoples pages. ( I don't want to see who would in a fight, who's smartest, who your most desirable friend is, your aquarium, puzzles etc.) - cpbrown, on 02/07/2008, -1/+10yeh its s stupid idea when you've got no friends isn't it?
- Lasereth, on 02/07/2008, -1/+10What, so all of them will be punished?
- cr3ative, on 02/07/2008, -0/+9I hate the applications that try and guilt trip you in to adding them by customising the buttons...
Mary Bloggs wants to be your best ever buddy. Would you deny her of that? She loves you.
Options:
* Yes!
* I ***** hate that woman, and hope she dies in a fire - feshmania, on 02/07/2008, -0/+8Oh, Rupert Murdoch, you say the darndest things!
- AmandaQ, on 02/07/2008, -0/+8PRAISE THE LORD!
I deleted my Myspace account because it was so annoying--and now Facebook is getting almost as bad. At least there's a lot less "glitter" crap at FB...but still. I don't really give a damn about what my secret admirer's mood color flower sign is. - ispellkonfusion, on 02/07/2008, -1/+8Every time I get one of those "When will you get married?" applications, I feel like my friends are trying to tell me something. They've really destroyed my ability to enjoy Facebook.
- Tokyosexwhale, on 02/07/2008, -2/+9Facebook needs only one App: Pirates Vs. Ninjas. None of the other ***** matters. I don't even care what you look like or what your favorite hobbies are..... all that matters is you are a pirate and I will ninja chop your head off. Prepare for battle.
- mjfitzge, on 02/07/2008, -3/+10ha. every app on facebook is stupid. the instant they started allowing those things was the instant i really started hating facebook.
- user7, on 02/07/2008, -0/+7Poke...
Super Poke....
wtf is a poke anyways? Why don't people just send a message saying "Hi? - lightningrod220, on 02/07/2008, -0/+6They need to go back to the college/alum model, block everyone else, and drop the apps. Then, Facebook will be cool again. Part of the fun of it was that it was blocked to those that didn't attend a college or university.
- 80hd, on 02/07/2008, -0/+6Where's the "ignore all application requests" option?
- Cine, on 02/07/2008, -0/+6I don't see how that will improve the situation.
What they have to do, is to make it impossible for applications to tell how many friends you have invited. That way, it will be impossible for the apps to reward you for sending spam to 239580392 of your friends, and then everyone will stop inviting people unless they genuinely think that a friend should check out a decent app.
*****, maybe the best thing is to remove the invite feature entirely. I'll tell my friend IRL or on IM about the decent apps. I don't need Facebook to make it easy for me. - peestandingup, on 02/07/2008, -1/+5Not true. There are some very useful apps. But, there are a lot of retarded ones too.
-Election '08 app
-Video app
-Marketplace app
-Flixster app
-Mobile app
All good, solid apps thats useful. Myspace's entire site is completely useless. - qwertyuio, on 02/07/2008, -2/+7"640K software is all the memory anybody would ever need on a computer."
- bosssmiley, on 02/07/2008, -1/+5And, in an ideal world, the response would be:
Block sender.
Block sender.
Block sender.
Block sender. - lightningrod220, on 02/07/2008, -0/+4If you click on the link to the app, you can click "Block". But, I agree, that's still too much work and too annoying to do to each one.
One of my FB friends keeps sending me invites to the same stupid apps. Blocking them has really cut down on the annoyance. - Jibberwalk, on 02/07/2008, -1/+5I think 5 applications would be more than enough.
- konforce, on 02/07/2008, -0/+4They need to ban the practice of giving incentives for inviting your friends. e.g., "If you invite 30 friends, you get 500 more stupid points that you can inflict on them." If they were to eliminate that, the spam would drop considerably.
- slippy4twenty, on 02/07/2008, -0/+4I agree! I don't need another way to poke/bite/race any of my friends, I can do ALL of that in real life. However, check out iRead.....its a nifty little app I discovered and it allows you to make a neat little bookshelf of books you've read and discuss them with friends that have read the same books. People who read for fun are kinda a dying race so its nice to see something that encourages it.
- richbradshaw, on 02/07/2008, -0/+4It's Plant, not Plante. Buffoon.
- inquebiss, on 02/07/2008, -0/+3I had started using facebook because I thought it would be a mature alternative to myspace, but then those stupid applications got completely out of hand and I went back to myspace. Now myspace will suck even more.
- kaph, on 02/07/2008, -1/+4I secretly want to punch application notification abusers in the back of the head.
- KhaaL, on 02/07/2008, -0/+3it's the lazymans alternative. Or/and to annoy the hell out of people.
Besides, you can get to see the persons page if they poke you back. - vdgmr1213, on 02/07/2008, -0/+3And as I read this, I have to to click ignore 5 times just to get rid of these stupid requests. I hope this cuts down on the pointless quiz and test apps, or else I'll have to actually go out with real friends.
- efitz11, on 02/07/2008, -0/+3That's really what starts the barrage of ninja requests and other crap like that
- ronocdh, on 02/07/2008, -0/+3Maybe. But you're getting modded down. The system works!
- BobbyMC, on 07/21/2008, -0/+3Which is especially embarassing given how much better the joke would have been spelled correctly.
- Eddible, on 02/07/2008, -0/+3It only appears if you have more than 25 requests, so it's still pretty ***** really.
- belzoradon, on 02/07/2008, -0/+3dugg up for good ideas. we should be allowed to decide those things on profile creation and anytime after that we want
- bejayel, on 02/07/2008, -0/+3So i finally wont be hugged by 40 different ***** applications.
I hope they flag applications that require you to invite your entire friend list as retarded ones. - yawaramin, on 02/07/2008, -0/+3What Facebook should do is make it really easy to block any application, as soon as you get a request from it, right there on the request page. I just need three options to answer a request--Accept, Ignore or Block. Even better, make all apps blocked unless I explicitly unblock them. From what I can see, any application can access my personal data as soon as I visit the profile of someone who has added that app.
- domness, on 02/07/2008, -0/+3Finally! I get so pissed off when a mass of application invitation comes to my notification area on Facebook. I've ended up having to block each application as they come through.
I'm quite glad about the extended profile area for putting random ***** in on a profile to 'tidy it up'. However, I know that not many users will actually use this and profiles will still remain cluttered and horrid to scroll through. - dasunst3r, on 02/07/2008, -0/+3Every time I get invited to an app I don't want, I search for it and block it. I've received fewer and fewer app requests since. I'm still waiting for the "Humans" application. Of all the other stupid things they have (Vampires, Werewolves, Pirates, Ninjas, ...), why do they still not have "Humans?" Do we not know who the hell we are anymore?!
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