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Ignore Application Invites on Facebook - Multiple Requests
Every time Facebook does a design update, you have to scrounge around looking for the functionality you used to enjoy.
I get invites (to Farmville, Mafia Wars, and about a trillion other wastes of time) from a certain friend. I don't want to accept them; in fact, I don't even want to be bothered with ignoring each invite. But I don't want to drop her as a friend, either. What do you do?
Easy! Follow these directions (I'm using the most recent version of Facebook, rolled out February 2010):
- Click the Account drop-down menu to the upper right.
- Select Privacy Settings from this drop-down menu.
- Click Applications and Websites.
- Click the Edit Ignored Friends button, across from the Ignore Application Invites section (4th one down).
- Type the name of the friend whose invites you want to ignore, select it, and hit return. You should see the person's name in the bulleted list below.
If you change your mind down the road, you can follow the same directions 1-4 and just click the Remove link next to their name. You'll start getting app invites from this person again.
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Great information! I, like many others, didn't want to have to click the button to delete them, but am so tired of getting these unwanted updates. Heading over there to try it out :D
Love this information! These things drive me nutty. I will be ready for them now and may begin to enjoy FB once more.
Nice! Good instructions. They're presented well.
thank you for this one ~Aloha~
Thanks! I stopped logging into facebook because of tons of that junk, maybe now I'll like using it again :)
Thanks for this - the apps were making me crazy! I'm headed over to FB right now to 'fix' them! Thank you x 10! ;-)
I have a different solution. No Facebook! :)
I have a difficult time navigating through facebook as it is. And If I want to go to Farmville, I will! =)
I had 2 get my dad 2 help my remove my BFF! She kept sending app invites from an app i hate, so i ignored her, thinking it would only affect that app. Well, it affected Farmville, petville, and all my other fav apps! It was so freaking annoying!
Oh, this is so helpful and relevant. I've managed to now block silly little invites from a few of my 'friends'
Can't thank you enough!
This is helpful. I do spend a little time on face book, and a lot of time is wasted like this. Thanks for the tips.
Useful... I don't use Facebook but I do read a lot of news and hear the similar complaints.
Good information thanks
oh good-- thanks. I needed that. I really did:-)
Good advice. I know it is addicting to many people and I decline many invitations but what surprised me is to see my name and a photo of a man and a woman with a baby I have never met or fathered. (LOL)
Livelonger, Thank you for this helpful information, Blessings!
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James: this friend is a trip when she posts status updates, though. It's just the app invites that grate my nerves.
Hi Livelonger, i have tried and learnt about these fraudulent applications on Facebook. i suggest Hubbers to stay out of these
I prefer to defriend them. I think that's the right thing to do. I do hate getting multiple requests from the same person tho. I usually friend them the first time around, and if they annoy me, I defriend them. If they friend me again, I ignore.
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You're quite welcome. Everyone has that friend who gets a bit overzealous with apps...
Now this is helpful information -- I experience the same thing and didn't know how to remedy it. Thanks so very much! Best, Sis
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