Comments on: Facebook Needs To Fix The Wall Spam Problem

By: abhinav

abhinav — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:48:52 +0000

these apps have become a headache…unnecessary and usless

By: Todd Van Hoosear

Todd Van Hoosear — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:46:37 +0000

Ian David Chapman has figured out a way to do this. It's not easy, but it keeps the most egregiously offensive crapplications from posting garbage on your wall without banning your idiotic friends (who probably deserve it but you're a nice person) in the process: http://www.iandavidchapman.com/how-to-block-faceb...

By: Francesco Consolo

Francesco Consolo — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:45:21 +0000

For me the worst wall spam is coming from FRIEND INTERVIEW, damn it's so irritating!

By: WiganPete

WiganPete — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:53:43 +0000

These things have ruined facebook and as a resulf i have gone on to delete nearly 1300 from my friends list.

It is stopping people from putting a bit of thought into saying something to the people in their friend list…Its braindead rubbish

By: Facebook User

Facebook User — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:49:25 +0000

There's an option to not allow people to post on your wall.

By: Anand Chhatpar

Anand Chhatpar — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:12:24 +0000

Hello Nick,

I'm not sure if you've seen our App's Info tab recently. We have created a special Opt-Out page for Wall posts:

http://apps.facebook.com/pillowfightme/optout

For people who have opted out, we will not allow their friends to post any pillows on their wall.

Regards,

- Anand

Developer: Pillow Fight

By: wolfy

wolfy — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:00:49 +0000

yes you can. if you block the application it will not post on your wall. alternatively, you can add the app and then edit the preferences to not allow publishing. then block notifications.

this doesn't seem to be a very important problem.

By: MojoMark

MojoMark — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:56:29 +0000

I suppose I'm lucky because I've never had a post end up on my wall from an application a friend uses.

I hope I just haven't jixed myself with that comment.

By: Dean Higginbotham

Dean Higginbotham — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:47:54 +0000

I also agree. I really like FB and want it to succeed!

Having said that, imo, FB needs a blanket filter so we're not having to manually block every iteration of every "Pillow Fight-ish" app every day.

So, even if apps FORCE (against TOC) a user to post to friends walls, those posts only appear if the recipient allows them.

Why not include such an obvious filter? Whatever the motivations to allow such behavior, imo, in the end, the abusers are rewarded and the quality users are driven away.

By: Otto

Otto — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:01:02 +0000

Why not just block the application?

Click the application name to go to its main page, then Block Application, just underneath the app's image/logo.