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Comments for "I will not be influenced by peer pressure"

1. Spik3balloon

   Sep 23rd, 2007 at 9:37 pm

   I caved in to the first few, but then it started going a bit crazy…
   http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/6747/fbappfi2.jpg

   At least it’s not as bad as Bebo or MySpace where you’re hit with eye-gulching layouts, and annoying flash boxes that start pumping out loud techno music…

2. Daniel

   Sep 23rd, 2007 at 10:10 pm

   No Long, you’re not alone. I’m happy to keep track of a few friends via Facebook, but I’ve got no wish to get vampire werewolf or zombie bites, play cards, give pretend booze, or have a virtual aquarium.

   Though I will admit to playing Facebook Pacman.

3. Jason Cartwright

   Sep 23rd, 2007 at 10:23 pm

   No I’m also declining any requests to be turned into a zombie, add a fish tank, be compared with others, or any other crazy Facebook apps. It’s quickly turning into myspace, minus the ability for users 2 customise the backgrounds.

   Only time I’ll add an app is if it’s actually useful, like the measure of broadband speeds in Australia.

   Cheers!

4. hi

   Sep 23rd, 2007 at 10:33 pm

   Nope, you arent. I’ll be caught dead if i install the ‘glitterbox’ app.

5. Zack

   Sep 23rd, 2007 at 10:47 pm

   Nope, I’m on the same track as you Long

6. Jono

   Sep 23rd, 2007 at 11:29 pm

   We should start a Facebook group “The Campaign for Non-excessive Application Usage”

7. Matt Sharpe

   Sep 24th, 2007 at 12:23 am

   Nope you’re definitely not the only one. From what I’ve been told, most applications spam everyones friends by default, which is probably why they are so widespread and also so annoying.

8. Karma Parmar

   Sep 24th, 2007 at 12:23 am

   bringing apps into facebook was a bad idea
   i mean facebook had an elegant, but simple interface
   but with all the apps it looks like myspace now
   i just hope they dont allow people to customize their profiles with css, now that will be really annoying

   oh yeah though, the only good apps are as followed:
   1) Videos
   2) Free Gifts
   3) Chicago Bears Fan

9. Sam

   Sep 24th, 2007 at 12:34 am

   I agree, bringing apps into facebook was a bad idea. The thing that annoys me more than all these invitations though is when your friends add 50 applications to their profile so it takes forever to load. Luckily, however, you can just hide those application boxes you don’t want to see and they’ll hide on any profile you visit that also has the same boxes

10. Mel

    Sep 24th, 2007 at 1:45 am

    How do you hide the application boxes you dont want to see on profiles you visit?

11. Andrew M.

    Sep 24th, 2007 at 1:58 am

    Oh I should’ve taken a screen shot. I have a friend that just moved to Texas and before she left I asked her to remove all of her malicious applications so I could actually communicate without having to agree to every application she used.

    She had every application under the sun. Her profile was uber-long, it took a good ten ‘page downs’ just to get to her actual wall which there were about six of them (super wall, fun wall, wall wall, wall cubed…).

    I just need the photo and video and I’m good. Let’s not MySpace it all up people.

    On a side note, its almost as bad as the guy who has over 1000 friends…how many of those people does he actualy know and talk to?

    But I digress.

12. Fire

    Sep 24th, 2007 at 2:23 am

    I have no apps installed, and it’s been easy. Just look at the invites you get, and ask yourself, “Do you want to be the person SENDING the invites?”

13. Cullen D

    Sep 24th, 2007 at 3:28 am

    I’m not either ‘) BUT, you should join Jedi vs. Sith — it is bloddy fun.

14. Cloud02

    Sep 24th, 2007 at 3:40 am

    I poked you

15. James

    Sep 24th, 2007 at 4:02 am

    I don’t have quite that many, but I too refuse to add them >_

16. Ardekantur

    Sep 24th, 2007 at 4:15 am

    You are not the only one. I refuse to install any applications on Facebook. I wish I could just use it as a directory entry of sorts, so people can find me, instead of having to see how people are faring in the NINJA vs PIRATE war or some crap.

17. Liyster

    Sep 24th, 2007 at 9:19 am

    Long,
    I block the application, which prevents further invite requests, then decline the current invitations in my queue. No more crappy application invites!

18. Jason Cox

    Sep 24th, 2007 at 9:33 am

    You’re not the only one, Long. I just wish people knew not to just press ‘Send’ when presented with a list of all their friends after installing the app.

19. Garret

    Sep 24th, 2007 at 1:43 pm

    Facebook was perfect until the spawn of applications. Not a day goes by that people try and make me become a zombie or find out what my stripper name is.

20. Pharod

    Sep 25th, 2007 at 12:30 am

    I just click Ignore… All the requests annoy me.

21. Beau

    Sep 25th, 2007 at 5:29 pm

    Um, One of those wouldn’t be mine… right?

22. Chris H

    Sep 26th, 2007 at 1:51 am

    Just have the Photos application installed and nothing else.

23. Tricia

    Sep 26th, 2007 at 10:02 am

    whatever happened to websites like friendster?! simple and easy to use…

    and what’s the point of having a gazillion social network accounts? the friends are going to be the same anyway!

24. Benjamin "balupton" Lupton

    Sep 28th, 2007 at 4:30 pm

    I keep emailing facebook for a option to turn off application notifications for application I don’t have added…

25. John Anderton

    Sep 30th, 2007 at 2:51 am

    Not really. I do the same

26. Jonathan Noble

    Oct 6th, 2007 at 1:08 am

    I’ve added a few carefully selected ones (Google Reader Shared Items, Pandora), but I never accept an application invitation. Some profiles are looking ridiculous now. It puts you off your own friends!

27. LookingTrim

    Oct 24th, 2007 at 6:00 am

    Yeah, I don’t install applications in facebook - whats the point anyway.

28. Bakelite Gal

    Oct 31st, 2007 at 9:04 am

    I just ignore all the messages. I would never give in to peer presssure. Its the only way

29. Benjamin "balupton" Lupton

    Nov 7th, 2007 at 3:16 am

    Hi Long, there is a greesemonkey script http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/11790 that lets you kill all the applications you don’t care about, so stops them showing on profiles, feeds, and requests/notifications, it is a godsend.

30. b happy

    Mar 8th, 2008 at 9:41 am

    thanks man