My New Rule
My New Rule: Anyone who invites me to play a time-wasting social game automatically gets blocked and un-friended.
No exceptions!
In other words, if you send me an unsolicited junk invitation, your punishment will be ex-communication and eternal damnation.
Got it?
You know who you are, out there. You’re all over Facebook like insects stuck on flypaper. You’re hopelessly addicted to Candy Birds, Angry Wives, Farmersville, and whatever else. And because you have hours a day to waste, you somehow think I’m interested in joining some giant circle jerk with no financial incentive nor educational value.
You obviously don’t know me at all. If you did, you’d understand that I’m not interested in playing games with farm animals and candy bars. Especially not with free porn so plentiful.
So let me repeat again. Do not invite me to “like” something. If you do something interesting, then by all means post it and I’ll have a look. If I decide to visit your page, I’ll tag it on my own. I don’t need to be pimped into giving you a “like.”
I’ve had it with bullshit social games.
The apps are posting on behalf of the user. That person is not actually sending you an invitation. So their only crime is playing the time wasting game in the first place.
Even worse facebook accounts get hacked all the time by cyberfreaks being paid to send out thousands of game solicitations that appear to be coming from your friends. Also if I have a friend who joins a game, that game will let them send invites not only to their friends but to mine as well. Purging such facebook addicts takes up more time than I want to devote to just about anything less interesting than flossing.
In summary, facebook is evil but so are all the rest of my vices except that really big one.
https://www.facebook.com/HowToBlockGameRequests
Ditto Nolan! Social Media “Gamer” = Escape Artist