How To Deal With Facebook Application Requests

If you’re like every other Facebook user, you despise receiving invitations, and you hate hitting up your friends with them at the same time to get an application to do things for you. We’re going to cover how to deal with both sides of this problem for you today.

First off, as you can see in the image to the right, I receive an insane amount of application requests.  While not as bad as some, it is still an excessive amount of requests, and honestly, I never accept any of them.  I don’t like a cluttered profile, and if I want an application added to my account, then I go out and find it for myself.  It amazes me that more people don’t notice the “Ignore all” at the top of the requests column, but it is doubtful that Facebook wants you to.  As the name implies, you click that simple pair of words and all of those invitations will disappear.  Sure you could just never click them, but it does get annoying to see them all sitting there everytime you go in to deal with friend requests.

So how do you keep from doing this to your friends?  Quite often when you have an application, they want you to send out invitations to other members to get your results of a quiz, or unlock special features.  Called “Skip Forced Invites”, this is a bookmarklet which means you click on it, and while holding your left mouse button down, you drag it up to your toolbar.  Once there, you can just click it anytime you need to send invites and it makes Facebook think you sent the invites without actually doing it.

As the page says, Facebook no longer allows forced invite situations, but they do still allow them when you want to unlock more features or possibly earn points in a game application.  Once you get to the page where it asks you to spam your friends with invites, you click the bookmarklet and no friends get spammed with all of these annoying invitations.

Don’t get me wrong, I think applications are a great idea, but only when used responsibly, and I don’t really need to play Taxas Hold ‘Em on Facebook.