There’s no better way to tell your friend you love them than smacking them in the face with a pillow. Alright, maybe hitting them with a pillow isn’t the best way to express your affection, however over the past week, millions of Facebook users have been spreading love with the Pillow Fight application. Personally I find the application to be horrendously annoying as my profile gets spammed with multiple pillow fight wall posts daily.
The pillow fight application is not the only app which has taken advantage of the holiday as an opportunity to spam user profiles. Blingee Book, for example, lets you send video cards to your friends that are then posted to their wall. In theory it’s a great feature, however with the volume of wall posts I’ve received in the past few days, I have a feeling that some developers have discovered a loop hole in the Platform.
Alternatively they are simply taking advantage of users to get them to spam their friends’ walls. Whatever the reason is, millions of users are now sending cards, gifts, and hitting each other with pillows once again on the Facebook Platform, something which we once thought would be eliminated all together. Unfortunately I can’t come up with any better explanation for the sudden surge in wall posts from friends I don’t know well.
Have you noticed a sudden surge in the number of application posts on your wall from friends? In just over a week the Pillow Fight application has jumped from 3 million monthly active users to over 6 million, and while some of these applications have relevant holiday content, many of them appear to be nothing more than spammy applications.
What applications are your friends posting to your wall? Do you find these posts to be annoying or do you like them?
The first thing I did when I got my FB account a few years back was setup my privacy settings with hard line restrictions on app's.
Considering I've blocked access so friends can't write on my wall I don't get any Apps clouding my profile. However I would love to see FB introduce a feature which automatically lets you hide every single news feed item that is related to an application.
I have that many app's hidden who knows if the 'junk box' will eventually fill up.
Comment by Emil — December 28, 2009 @ 7:40 pm
I agree with Emil on that – There should be a better way to control those notifications which seriously drive me nuts.
Comment by Sardar Mohkim Khan — December 29, 2009 @ 10:55 am
I've blocked and blocked and yet these apps are still posting to my wall without my permission! SO FRUSTRATING!
Comment by Dayngr — December 30, 2009 @ 8:28 pm
Much of the application spam which used to clog my Notifications is now clogging my Wall instead.
Comment by David — January 2, 2010 @ 10:17 am
Help, help, HELP on blocking those *X#$%& apps! I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, but they completely JUNK up my wall!
Comment by Kim Anthony — January 10, 2010 @ 9:40 am