I have a bias. I don’t play multiplayer games, finding other ways to waste my time.

I do one fond memory of Facebook Games.. way back in 2007, one of the first discussions I had with @CoachDeb was due to a vampire bite she sent me. That led to an exchange about such message clogging up the mail system on Facebook (thankfully that long since been fixed) and was a common viewpoint that led to us writing Twitter Revolution a few months later.

I don’t mind that a friend asks me to play a game, and now there are ways to turn off all notices about a game. You do not have to put up with hearing about your friends farm, mafia family or great desire to share virtual food and drink on Facebook

First, join the fans of Not Playing Farmville (optional)

There are no rules for this, no posts on the fan page and you’ll never receive any notice from them.. but a few million of us are there to represent the 320,000,000 non-Farmville-playing Facebook users

Next time you see a notification from Farmville, or any other app, just click on REMOVE and you’ll have the option to BLOCK THE APPLICTION

Since I’ve done this, I have no direct knowledge of Farmville.. just as I want it. The same kind of technique is available for many notifications. If there is something in Facebook that annoys you, there is likely a way to avoid it.

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