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Thomas Hawk
Thomas Hawk
Here is Why Facebook is not as Cool as FriendFeed and Why it Totally Makes My Head Hurt Sometimes - http://flickr.com/photos...
Here is Why Facebook is not as Cool as FriendFeed and Why it Totally Makes My Head Hurt Sometimes
March 4 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Share
No. Way. - LogEx
-nuff said....or not said. I don't want any more snowballs thrown at me...PLEASE! - Jennifer Windrum
Yeah, all that crap is pretty annoying. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
and you people complain about a little chapstick and lips every now and again. sheesh. I'd much rather see chapstick and lips any day of the week over getting a "crush jason alexmi" request or getting *two* sammy is sexy requests in the same day! - Thomas Hawk
=O - Shevonne
You know you can turn that off right? - Eric P
hahahahhaa - Shevonne
horrible - andy brudtkuhl
OUCCCCH (E.T. Voice) - sean percival
no doubt. i'm always blocking apps. i don't want play around with hatchlings or pieces of flair or get involved in any dang food fights. - Jason Shultz from twhirl
That right there is the biggest reason I can't stand Facebook and I would dump it in a heartbeat if it didn't mean that all of my family and distant friends would instantly have a shitfit. - tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Also - Facebook = "Real life Friends". If you only friend people you're actually friends with it's actually a terrific application for keeping in touch. If you try to treat it like a Friendfeed/Twitter/MySpace then you wind up with a load of crap and its utility takes a nose dive. - Eric P
PREACH!! - Derrick
thankfully i've avoided this kind of garbage - chrisofspades
I block just about every app invite I get. I'm glad some people like it, but I despise ANY application, social network, or whatever that the second step in adding the app is to SPAM all of my friends with it. This is a terrible process and needs to be done away with. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)
I didn't add them. They are invitations. - Thomas Hawk
Totally agree with you. couldn't have said it better. - Karoli
Sean hit it perfectly. It's why I use Facebook as nothing more than an address book for people from my past. That has always made me sick, screen 2 is "Tell me who to spam!" - Matthew DeVries
@Haggis: Agreed. And I too block pretty much every app invite I get. The irritating part is when someone gets all uppity with me because I didn't return their snowball or superpoke them back. I'm like...srsly? You send me that ridiculous crap and then have the nerve to get mad at ME for not participating? - tinypants - Hagitha of FF
I am blocking most apps, because things can get outta hand ... - Rene Wirtz
@Amanda: I tell/have told all my friends that they can send those requests, but that I categorically deny all of them. It's surprising how that already decreases the number of requests. - Rene Wirtz
I do get tired of all that crap. My bro sent me a video to watch on Farcebook a few days ago, but to see it I would have to download yet another silly wall. I don't need more than one, nor do I need to install multiple calendars so you can see when my birthday is. Go to my profile. - Ian May
For every app invite i block, i seem to get twice as many the following day. Its better now their not all over people profiles pages when they do get added though. - Simon Wicks
Thomas - I think you're really gettign confused between Facebook and these leeches trying to suck off the Facebook platform. Just ignore them and these requests would never appear. Or better yet - DEfriend anyone who would be so stupid as to include you on a list of requests. JUST DUMP THEM - and everything will be fine. - Marc Canter
But seriously...you really should accept my Pirates vs. Ninjas request. - Adam
You're just waaaay too popular, Tom ;-) - Dave Fortheloss
Yep. I put a moratorium on adding apps and made that abundantly clear, but I still get all the cr@p. - Julie Barrett from twhirl
this is just one example of the silliness and boring nature of facebook. Frankly it's just not engaging. There's so much wrong with it and this is just the start. FriendFeed is a far superior platform for probably 100 different reasons. - Thomas Hawk
I have found that blocking invites from certain users and applications is very helpful. - Adam
@Thomas I agree with you 100%. I think FB is near unusable.. You're right it's not engaging - it's more of a distraction and there's very little value proposition for me to connect with people. I get the same with email/IM/flickr.. FF is far superior in my estimation - andy brudtkuhl
that's just crazy! insane! crazy?...insane? - .LAG liked that
Holy crap and I cry when I see 3 of them on my bar. - Captain Bubbles
Just looked at this and confirmed that I have no interest in joining Facebook. - TranceMist
I'm not a fan of the tons of virtual goods and apps either, but I've got tons of friends who would qualify as "normal people" and cannot imagine living without FB. It's a rich way for them to keep in touch with people. I like FF a bunch but I also recognize the bandwagon effect that exists with FB. - Cecyl Hobbs
A picture is worth a 1000 words. - Eric Logan
*Brain cramp* - Shey, Jamaican of FF
HOLY FRAKKIN' FRAK - Josh Haley
Sweet baby Jesus - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I've just been blocking all Facebook apps. - Morton Fox
Are you shitting me? wow I don't even get that much action on Facebook. - Patrick from twhirl
INSANE Bro! - Francis Aldana
@Morton Fox: I do the same. Problem is that you have to opt out of each crappy app that anyone you know has managed to dig up. If you don't log in often and deal with these head-on, the simple act of opting out can be daunting. - Keith McCammon
It's striking how many people hate Facebook who nevertheless for various reasons feel unable to abandon it -- not so much a virus as a fungus. It's depressing to think that due to network lock-in my daughter may be stuck on it for years to come. - Tim Ostler
something will come along to replace it. it's the inevitability of things. - Jason Shultz from twhirl
I don't get why people who don't like apps don't block them all, or why people who do like them feel the need to send invites to everyone, let alone whine that you haven't accepted. Most apps I use have a button that shows your friends with the app, and I only send to those. - Alix Whitmire
@Keith IIRC there's a greasemonkey script that lets you block them all at once. - Alix Whitmire
Yep. Stuff like that's why I get the heebie jeebies about 5-10 mins after logging into Facebook. - Susan A. Kitchens
Ahhhhhh, the voice of reason! I'm so glad I'm not alone. - Rob Fahrni
RT yourself from June 2008? - ThePicMan
Sweet baby jesus on a stick! - Bec Rowe @d0tski
Jebus Herschel Krustovsky! That's ridiculous! - Abbas Haider Ali
You should make that your Twitter background. :) - Pete Delucchi
This post is what made me finally deactivate my Facebook account. I've had enough. - Rochelle
HUGE LOL - Kamilah Gill
aw man, what happened to the flickr image? - Kamilah Gill
yep, I just IGNORE these types of apps/notifications- I have SO many sent to me and I would literally need to quite my job to attend to them full-time. It's insane. I think 95% of them are a waste of time imho... there are always going to be those people who love to do the spamming but it doesn't mean you need to pay attention to them :) One part of FB that I also do not love. - Deanna Belle Govoni
This is one of the big reasons why I try and limit friends to people I know in person, and a few others who I can trust to not act like invite-wielding idiots. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Facebook sucks so badly. Why the hell people are still using this crap? - Ryo / Fuck Facebook
that's crazy! - K.D.
Why would you blame facebook for you having idiot friends? - Richard Lawler
Who ever said Facebook is cool? It's a rambling mess suitable only for people with lots of spare time and nothing else to do with it. - Todd Brunner from twhirl
shit like that is what makes me hate FB. they need an option saying "please auto ignore all invites from everyone". i used to have a greasemonkey script which did it, but the bloody things are getting smarter - Terry O'Fee
Richard: Who said I have idiot friends? Intelligence has nothing to do with people trying to share their fave FB apps with everyone else, especially before Facebook put in limitations to keep apps from spamming their users' friends. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Thing is, once burned, twice shy. So only people I can trust to not send me lots of invites get to be friended to me on Facebook. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
it's just some people. i know great people who forward every single email online. there's one person, ive given her an old yahoo email adress so i dont hurt her feelings :P - Terry O'Fee
Smart people catch on to spamming apps quickly, they recognize when they've been spammed, instead of signing up and passing them along, or continuing to request you join (insert game of the week.) If your friends can't figure out what's annoying to you, how can you expect Facebook to? - Richard Lawler
immediately block app requests as they come in! according to the picture there were not so many apps involved here, but blocking them from the beginning on spares you more invitations.. - Johannan Edelman
I thought my FaceBook was bad when requests piled up, but you definitely win! I don't feel quite so irritated about it, now ;o) - Seth Greenblatt
Yeah, that's one thing I hate about FB, those cutesy apps. I almost never participate in that... - Rick Cogley
Try Facebuprofen. - david beckwith
Just say no to 99.9% of all facebook apps and your problems are solved... :) - Walt Ruppar
Some of my friends are so annoying on FB that I have to permanently block all invites from them. Bloody Blood-sucking-vampire-stricken-greek-godish-monsters. - Aman
ha ha - Saravanan
Aman: Sad to see I'm not the only one who suffers so. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
@Chris: Indeed it is sad. I am in the process of forming a group called "People who hate people". - Aman
WOAH! You know, I think it is funny, I removed ALL my apps the other day, AND told all my friends that I removed my apps, and they are STILL sending me app invites. If you keep up on it, it's fine. If you don't, it looks like this... /sigh - Danielle Closs
Friends oh Friends. - Aman
But FB is still better than the Google counterpart - Orkut. The sleaziest Social Website of all times. Their tag line : "Its so easy to get molested online, let us make it easier for you". - Aman
Holy Facebook Crap Batman! - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Some apps are good but most are just spam. Good apps are hard to find but there are a few nice ones out there, I like the ff app and the twitter app. I also use the slayers app and the compare people app. I'm a little shallow. - Wesley Robin Guerrero
I hate the updates that I don't need. A large number of apps are useless. - Palak Mathur
Urgh! So true! - Vera
I just ignore pretty much everything that's not a message or a new friend request. - Jim Hearts FF
NADD - bifurcafe
if your notification board looks like this, you just seem to agree to all those useless "send xyz a flower/pet/other crap"-applications. ignore those and you'll have your personal internet-operating system based on your friends and your life - natadd from twhirl
DELETE BUTTTTTOOOONNNNN!!!!! - Susan Beebe
Mine looks almost as bad as that and I only have 8 friends (real life friends & family) - April Russo (app103)
Thanks for the pic Thomas, you've reaffirmed my decision to ignore all the app requests I get from friends with too much time on their hands. - pitlord from twhirl
Use http://www.ignoreall.com/ Cleans up everything in a jiffy. - Jauder Ho
I like FF for commenting on stories and seeing a discussion. I like FB for smaller discussions. FF bigest minus for me is the lack of a notification if someone specifically responds to me. - ChiliMac
Agree with ChiliMac. - Aman
That's a big list... I'm getting tired of hitting the ignore as well. - Gary Gifford Jr
Believe me, even a good confrontation with those slimy friends does do any good. They keep sending invites even after that. - Aman
I'd be a rich man if if I got a penny for everytime I click ignore. I'm just not making that much use out Facebook nowadays! That's why I decided to give FriendFeed a test trial. - Vincent Nguyen
This is why they made the block function, I've blocked over 500 applications and I don't get many requests anymore. I promise, it works. - Aaron Myers
It looks like facebook just threw up on your screen, IGNORE ALL!! And back away slooowly... - Peter To
I don't get it. I have 600+ friends on FB (not crazy huge, but not an insubstantial number). About once a week, I do a combo of ignore-app's and ignore-all-apps from a few friends, and voila! In about 1-2 minutes, I'm all set. 1-2 minutes a week. How many friends do you have on FB, Thomas? And how many years has it been since you've cleared things out? While I think FB shares some of the blame, is this situation any different than not cleaning *anything else* out once in a while? - Adam Lasnik