Last week I asked for your opinion on using Twitter updates to automatically feed my Facebook status updates. I received a lot of great feedback and when all was said and done I decided I decided that the auto-updates should stop. I removed the app from Facebook leaving me with exactly zero add-on applications installed on Facebook.
On average I receive 5-10 requests to add new applications to my Facebook account each week. Movie quizzes, causes, calendars, pass a drink, top friends and so, so many more. Recently several of my family members have been sending me request for an app that says we’re related. I treat these the exact same way I treat the rest; I click the button that says “ignore.” If you’ve sent me an app request and I’ve ignored it, please don’t be offended. You are not alone. I do the same to everybody.
I use Facebook to connect with far off friends and family. When I log in I like to see what my friends and family are up to. I don’t want to have to sort through pages and pages of movie quizzes and badges exclaiming that you’ve sent me a digital teddy bear in order to get to what I really want to see. So for me, keeping my Facebook account clean from the clutter of 100 add-on apps is priority one.
I only bring this up because a friend messaged me asking why I never accept the apps he sends me. I figured it would only be a matter of time before others would ask. Especially some family members. Hopefully they read my blog. So once again, do not be offended. I’m not ignoring your app. I’m ignoring everybody’s apps.
How many Facebook apps do you have installed? How many of them are even remotely useful?
DOn't tell anyone, but I feel the same. If you're going to give me a drink. let it be a real one
Elise… you just told everyone… oops!
Yeah. I don't do these either, I have tons of requests for this and that. I guess I never really cared… No Super Poke either. LOL!
I also ignore every app request that i sent to me. I like my nice, clean Facebook profile.
Like Steve Ballmer and MS Vista, most FaceBook apps are the devil. Yes, I have some of them, but I ma mostly selective in my choices.
ARGH! That is one reason I dread going to Facebook. It takes forever to ignore all the junk. I also get group invites to things I would never have interest in. I just find Facebook hard to navigate & I like seeing peoples profiles before I friend them. I agree that Facebook is evil and so are all the apps.
Sheryl, I know what you mean. But, it does get easier over time. I've been getting less and less requests, so maybe friends are catching on.
Hopefully that happens to you, too.