Sorority Wars on Facebook ... FarmLife ... Fluff ... You know, I've seen people complain pretty darned loudly here about how Gather has gone to the dogs and how the Enquirer-level articles proliferate and harass down the side of the page.
Y'all haven't been on Facebook lately, have you? It's awful. I have a zillion contacts ... that's what happens when you're involved with ferrets--every single person in the entire world wants to link with you. Each of those people belong to between 1-5 (I'm guessing) applications, which Facebook is oh so happy to help them share with each and every person they know.
I agree with this post I found called "Magnificent Vista":
If you’re on Facebook, chances are you’ve gotten an invitation to one of the game applications that have proliferated over the past several months. If you haven’t, you will. They are coming for you, and they are legion. Don’t be fooled into thinking that if you accept the request that you’ll be free of the annoying invitations, either. Once you add an application, the “invitations†morph into “gifts†that you can use inside the games. Every single Facebook friend that plays the game can send you these little “gifts,†and trust me, they will. Build a farm! Send your friends trees and flowers! Build a mafia, send your friends loot! Build a sorority, send your friends, uh, diseases? It’s incredibly annoying. But the fact is, these games aren’t going away. Zynga, one of the big boys in the social media gaming space, has an estimated $200 million in revenue this year, and EA purchased PlayFish for somewhere between $275 and $400 million. Never doubt the ability of an annoyance to make ungodly sums of money.
I'm tired of all the applications, kisses, hugs, gifts, flowers, plants, sheep, feathers, cats, Mafia Wars, etc. I get no fewer than 45 "requests" a day from various people I'm connected to. At least 25% of which are in a foreign language I don't understand. I don't hate you, I just don't have time to deal with that many requests! Please! LOL!
So the next time I hear someone complaining that Gather is overwhelming them with junk, I'm going to send them a screen shot of my Facebook account.
Oh, and if you're looking for Lucy Hale, Jason Dolley, Los Echisero de Weverly Place, barbiegames, or Hayley Kiyoko, you can find them on a TV show called "Sorority Wars" ... not on Facebook, but maybe soon.
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I did join one group a few weeks ago ... the one about finding a million people to find a million people or something like that, because it was absurd. :-)
I don't think you should eat the cheesecake unless it's got zero carbs/sugar. You may be about to go completely berserk.
"Stand back or I'll let you have it!" she said with a glazed look on her face and yellow sugar crystals on her lips. "Take one more step and I will bite the head off this poor, innocent baby chick!" The crowd cried out in horror, and pressed themselves back against the wall. "No!" the heavyset woman cried, "Think of the poor mother!" But it was too late, the crazed marshmallow woman stuffed the entire peep inside her mouth and chewed, dribbling bits of peep sugar. The police had had enough, and shot the Taser at her, immediately roasting the remaining marshmallow peeps she held in her hand. The yellow molten goo spattered the crowd as she jerked and spasmed.
Some of the proceeds went to the Marshmallow Peep Memorial Garden.
Facebook can be a bit messy, but like Gather, there are ways to control some of the madness.
Like Tracy above, I say no to everything that doesn't meet my objectives for using the site. I also have created more than one account which provides me with greater flexibility.
As a facebook farmville player, I realize how annoying applications can be. More so the ones I do not use rather than the ones I do.
But it is SOOOO easy for you to not be annoyed. There are a bunch of different ways to get rid of the annoying requests without wanting them to be "killed" for those of us who actually use them.
The easiest way is to merely block each application you do not want to see in your feed or receive requests from. You can also hide any application you do not want to see in your feed. Then KAZAAM! They disappear! What a concept!
I click block and it says error. I click again and it says not found. I click again and it crashes.
I really don't care if people play the games, I just object to that "send a whoziwhatsis to every single person you know". I think the people I'm connected to are just lazy and send to everyone. Sigh.
When I play games on facebook I have all the people that also play on a specific list so that when I post anything game-related or send anything game related, I know exactly who plays and who doesn't.
Thanks for the story!
and how comes you are not mine friend on facebook? I could send you lots of foods and critters and mystery boxes and ....
I'm glad to hear you're on FB, though. I'll have to look you up over there.
Annoying: that if you want to get help with certain things or offer certain things you can only do it by posting to your wall...which I HATE. You should be able to to keep the game content exclusively on the game and still take advantage of all the features!
Good: you can completely block applications that you don't want invitations from on the request page. Then there will be no more invites from that particular app. Unfortunately new and annoying apps are showing up all the time!