http://disqus.com/people/e0c894f75024543411cf6f468b2cc6be/enSat, 19 Jan 2008 01:30:27 -0000http://allfacebook.disqus.com/facebook_updates_newsfeed_rules/#comment-1639200This is a great step towards making the Facebook useful again. Before the app spam was allowed, the News Feed was a handy place allowed me to get the news about the actions generated by my "Friends".<br><br>After the apps were unleashed and figured out that spam was the way to grow, my News Feed has turned into a whole bunch of Flixter notifications "that X challenged Y to take a movie quiz" with X and Y being any two random people from my friends list. Or that I received a video message from Z, even though I didn't.<br><br>In short time, most of the content on my News Feed was app generated junk.<br><br>After getting tired of Flixter producing this spam on my friends's feeds, I've uninstalled it, as well as all of the ****-walls. It's a shame, Flixter could be a useful community application but they shot themselves in the foot by being unscrupulous in their user acquisition tactics.<br><br>The next great step would be if I could mute news about specific apps even if those actions were actually initiated by the users. I really don't care if someone turned vampire or became a pirate...Tom JosephSat, 19 Jan 2008 01:30:27 -0000