The other day, I was on Twitter and had a quickee conversation with my friend Mona about blocking Facebook applications. Turns out, she didn’t know how. With the feed feature being flooded constantly with applications like Farmville, Yoville, and Mafia Wars – you can’t help but want to get rid of them if you’re not playing them. It ruins the Facebook experience and can drive people who don’t check Facebook often insane.  I thought, if someone like Mona doesn’t know how to block them, most people must not know how.  So, I decided to show Mona and anyone else that wants to know.

The process is actually really simple – just three steps.

Step 1) Next time you get an application request in the upper right corner of Facebook, click on the link.

Step 2) Click on “Block This Application” which is located right below the request.

Step 3) Happy Dance – your Facebook Feed will be free of all annoying applications! Seriously – this has been a godsend to me once I learned how to do this and Mona’s tweet made me realize that, perhaps, not everyone knows how to do this. Since doing this, I don’t get annoying applications that I do not want to be a part of. (I am on Farmville – hence the Farmville notifications).  I have blocked virtually ALL applications.  You can unblock them very easily – just do a search for the application and unblock it.  I would imagine that most people will not be unblocking applications when they block them.

So, Mona – hope this helps!  MWAH – I love ya!