I wouldn't necessarily say, "Yay, Facebook!" but I've come to tolerate it - especially since it's the only social networking modality that a few of my friends use. (Whyyyyy can't they see the wonder and joy that is LiveJournal?)
Anyway... I was about to give up on FB until I learned how to block stuff.
If someone throws something at you, or tries to engage you in anything like a pillow fight or mafia wars or silly quizzes, if you hover your mouse to the right of that line item on the page, you'll see a little pop-up that says, "Block [friend name]" and "Block [Name of Application]". This also works if you get an invitation to get involved with something that uses an application, and it shows up on your invitation/friend request screen. There is a button that says, "Block this application".
True, there are new ones always popping up, but it has SIGNIFICANTLY lowered the spam on my page and I can actually keep up with what my friends are saying.
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Anyway... I was about to give up on FB until I learned how to block stuff.
If someone throws something at you, or tries to engage you in anything like a pillow fight or mafia wars or silly quizzes, if you hover your mouse to the right of that line item on the page, you'll see a little pop-up that says, "Block [friend name]" and "Block [Name of Application]". This also works if you get an invitation to get involved with something that uses an application, and it shows up on your invitation/friend request screen. There is a button that says, "Block this application".
True, there are new ones always popping up, but it has SIGNIFICANTLY lowered the spam on my page and I can actually keep up with what my friends are saying.