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It’s safe to go back to Facebook again

Posted by Mike Allan | March 4, 2008 .

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We’ve all had a chance to throw a zombie sheep at someone or poke, push, prod, slap or buy a beer for your friends and followers on Facebook, and I myself of course have joined in the fun. But what I really really hate is the fact taht to get to any results of any quiz or any application I HAVE to send the app to 20 friends - minimum. I read recently that Mike Arrington over at TechCrunch is calling this “friend spamming.”

As a result of this friend spamming, Facebook has become yesterday’s MySpace to me. I continue to build my community there and I have used it to talk to some of my old friends and colleagues, but for the most part I’ve been ignoring it. Some of my friends on Facebook are rabid users. I say this only because I get 55 emails a day about my Funwall and Superwall and Likeness results and everything else that goes on inside the community. At first I tried to keep up with all of this madness, lately I’ve just gotten really tired of the applications.

The one that seems to bug me the most is “Give Good Karma”. I received Good Karma from two of my cousins online and I decided to pass it on. I only passed it on to a few people. Apparently it wasn’t good enough for the Give Good Karma people. I received a nasty sounding message saying something like “You received 4 Good karmas and you are only passing on two? That’s not Good Karma”.

It was then I noticed the ability to block AND report the application, which I did.

In his article Mike Arrington reports:

First, users can block applications when they receive a request, so no additional requests from that app will get through. Second, they added a “clear all” requests feature that erases all pending requests (my new favorite, and most used, Facebook feature). Also, Facebook is watching how many people block or ignore application requests - too many, and an application has restrictions placed on it.

I’m with Mike on this one I’m going to town blocking and ignoring applications. Of course this could be a moot point if I stayed away fromFacebook, but we all know the lure will be too strong and I’ll be back.  think Facebook must have their ear to the ground and a bug in my office. Whenever I say something bad about them, they do something that doesn’t suck.

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