Facebook Apps Killing Me

I know that facebook has a great API that allows anyone to create a new application for Facebook. This has some tremendous possibilities to extend facebook to do some really amazing things! I am all for this!

What I do have a problem with is that there is not an option to stop all the bombardment of requests for you to add these applications because someone on your friend list did. No one is going to uncheck the users they don’t want the request to go to, so they just send it to everyone. It is really starting to get on my last nerve.

I use a handful of applications myself and make sure that I don’t invade my friends and family with requests to add the same application. It is the same as email spam. Unwanted and unsolicited. I have ignored more requests for applications in the month of August than the previous months combined. I can only imagine that September will be horrible.

Does anyone have a solution to turn those requests off? I have searched the net and found a bunch of other disgruntled users and groups, but nothing of significance to turn the app spam off.

As well, if you are a friend of mine and read this, please don’t send me another link to “Super Wall” or “Naughty Gifts” or whatever the next fad application is. I really am a simple guy with simple needs. In fact, I regular the applications page to find things that matter to me and don’t need a helping hand finding them.

I say “end the facebook application spam” please! Could someone commit an option box to the software and end our pain?

Thanks for listening!