How to block all Facebook application and message spam.
- http://www.facebook.com/privacy.php?view=platform&tab=myapps – remove everything apart from…
- Photos, Events, Posted Items, Notes and Groups.
- http://www.facebook.com/privacy.php?view=platform&tab=ext
- Remove anything here.
- Save
- http://www.facebook.com/privacy.php?view=platform&tab=all
- Select “Do not share any information about me through the Facebook API”
- http://www.facebook.com/privacy.php?view=search
- Under What Can People Do With My Search Results
- ‘See your picture’ and ‘Add you as a friend’ should be ticked. The rest not.
- Done.
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For readers’ information, this means you can’t have any applications external to Facebook (e.g. Causes). There doesn’t seem to be a way to tell Facebook, “I don’t want to hear from any application I haven’t already joined,” which would be the obvious way to cut out what most users would consider “spam”.