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Re:Facebook is scaring me by Retric on Saturday September 24, 2011 @02:44PM (#3033993)
Thanks for posting that, I have often wondered how Facebook could make such horrible usability decisions but it really seems like you guys have little understanding of why someone would want to use your service. 'You' had a relative spam free replacement for email and wasted that huge opportunity by letting random apps spam the channel. I don't want to share that type of crap not because I care about privacy, but because I don't want to waste the time of people reading my activity feed.

PS: I understand a huge part of FB's appeal and page views is the stalker aspect, but just think of all the people that would love to be able to flag all farmvill traffic as spam or simply ignore all posts by apps.

Re:Facebook is scaring me by uiri on Saturday September 24, 2011 @05:17PM (#3034351)
If there is something in your news feed which you don't want to be there, you can click the down-pointing arrow. If it is created by an app, you can even hide all posts from that particular app.

A hide from all apps would be nice, but I think that would catch updates from cell phones and the like too.