Since the recent changes in Facebooks privacy settings they have inadvertently removed your ability to control how applications can post to your wall. If you have a lot of friends on Facebook then I suspect that your wall is probably starting to look like mine and getting overloaded with spam. There is a solution but it means manually blocking each offending application. This quick tutorial will show you how to get your wall back to the way it used to be so you can actually see things that are more relevant
Is Your Facebook Wall Becoming Cluttered With Spammy Apps?
You Have To Block Each Facebook Application Individually
Click on the link that takes you to the Facebook Application that made the post on your wall
You Need To Go To The Applications Profile Page
When you are asked to allow access to the Application DO NOT click on the “Allow” button. Instead click on the hyperlink for the actual application.
This will now take you to the applications main profile page
You Can Now Block The Facebook Application
Click Again On The “Block” Button To Confirm Your Choice
When you block the Application it will no longer be able to post on your Facebook wall. You now have to repeat this process for all the offending applications. Once this is done you will soon see that the amount of spam on your wall is greatly reduced.
Another Way To Block Applications
Another way to prevent applications from sending you invites it to block the application and to also ignore all further invitations from the person who sent them to you. To do this you need to go to your Requests found on the top right of your Facebook homepageGo To Your Facebook Home Page
Select the “home” link when you are logged into Facebook. This should take you to your main Facebook home page. Your requests are located on the right hand side of the page
Select “Other Requests”
When you select “Other Requests” you can scroll down to the very bottom to see any unwanted application invites that you have received
You Can Now Block This Application
Select “Okay”
Just Click on the “Okay” button and the application will no longer be able to send you invitations or post to your wall
You Can Also Ignore All Invites From This Friend
If a particular person is sending you a lot of invitations for Facebook applications and you don’t want to remove them as a friend you can just choose to “Ignore All Invites From This Friend” the person will not know you have blocked them.
Excellent, thank you!!!!
Thanks Ian! Great tip!
Pam
Exactly what I was looking for… there are way too much junk appearing on my wall. Thanks Ian
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Great info thanks! Really cleared my facebook wall up!
A good write-up!
Now it's the time to say byebye to those irritating wall posts
Thanks for the tip!
You can block these apps the way stated here, but if you go into account settings, and view your profile as one of your friends, they still show up.
How about facebook give us control of our own profiles back!!!!
I cannot thank you enough for figuring this out!
I cannot thank you enough for figuring this out!
I've been doing what you suggested, however, what I find irritating is that I have to do it at all. It's just plain irritating that I have to go in after each user and block each application one by one, especially with the the rate that applications are being created. There is always a new one coming out every day. FB should have a way of blocking all applications (except ones that the individual user approves).
I want to have my profile applications removed that I put on from farnmville and treasure isle to have a way to remove them without clicked every one.
That's great… but what if you want to KEEP the game but block the application from allowing others to post to your wall?
The only way to do this is to block the ones playing the game from posting on your wall but that's not a very good solution either :/
Or is there something I dont know about?
If you stop the application from posting on your wall, will that DELETE the application completely? What if you don't want the app deleted (like a game) but you just want the app players to NOT post to your wall?
My question exactly.
Anybody knows if the spammy autoposting feature adheres to Facebook App Guidelines?
Hi, I am trying to find a block for “Auto Collect” for facebook. Im not very good on a computer and tried to follow what you explained above but Im clueless, can you help me please. Thank you
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