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Since I thought about writing a similar script I can tell you why it can be useful: - for one thing, as you said, you would need to do it for all the apps. I h
by Timothee 17y ago
Since I thought about writing a similar script I can tell you why it can be useful:
- for one thing, as you said, you would need to do it for all the apps. I haven't tried the script but it sounds like it would hide all the apps besides basic Facebook stuff (status, pictures…), without you doing anything more.
- there are some things that you can't hide like new friendships, or "likes", "fans". ("Cindy and Mark are now friends", "Dufus became a fan of Marshmallows"…) If you were to hide these, you actually hide everything from that person.
- chadgeidel 17y agoOk, that makes sense. Some days my feed is filled with those kinds of status updates. (fans, friends, likes,...)
- lotharbot 17y ago"you would need to do it for all the apps" If "all the apps" meant the half-dozen apps most played by your friends, this wouldn't be so bad. What makes this so bad is facebook sweepstakes apps that are essentially copies of each other. Sweepstakes #1: win an ipod nano is a different app than sweepstakes #2: win an ipod touch, which is different again from sweepstakes #3: win a macbook. My dad enters a lot of sweepstakes (winning many thousands of dollars worth of stuff per year). When he reached sweepstakes #100 from the same company, I asked him to set up a second facebook profile just for sweepstakes, so I could block them all with one click. Having a script to do it would be even better.
- pavel_lishin 17y agoMaybe I'm an asshole, but I'd simply hide him from my feed altogether, and maybe check his page once a week or so for any updates.
- lotharbot 17y agoI did hide him from my feed altogether -- or, rather, his sweeps-entering profile. For the trouble of having him set up an extra profile, I saved the trouble of having to hide apps OR specially check out his page.
- Timothee 17y ago"all the apps" does include all these me-too apps that are born every week. I haven't seen sweepstakes, but I have seen many quizzes.