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Re:Can Anyone Stop Facebook? by forensic on Friday December 04, 2009 @12:32PM (#976765)
Google specifically avoids changing the user experience.

Facebook-today is, for my uses, much worse than Facebook-of-years-past.

In the past it was simplistic, elegant, and did one job and did it well. Now it is trying to be everything and is bloated, slow, and spammy. The signal-to-noise ratio is terrible and I can't find a way to turn off "Mafia Wars" spam.

Re:Can Anyone Stop Facebook? by electromagnetic on Friday December 04, 2009 @03:59PM (#977191)
> I can't find a way to turn off "Mafia Wars" spam.

On the notifications that display, hover over the top-right corner and an X should appear. It prompts to hide all notifications from the application.

Thankfully notifications are one thing Facebook is removing. Perhaps the signal-to-noise ratio will improve when they make the spamming more difficult.