I'm a Facebook fan. I've used it to keep up with out-of-town & out-of-state friends, re-connect with former schoolmates & keep current on what is happening in my 'social graph.' I'm even a fan of the Facebook Apps that were launched last year (who doesn't love a good game of Scrabulous?). The one thing that I'm not a fan of are the endless 'requests' that now flood my account from people who are a bit too Facebook-obsessed, in my opinion.

I think Facebook realized pretty early on this side-effect of their apps system & introduced the one feature that, for me, is hands-down the best feature available on this popular social app - "Block This Application."

The beauty of this little feature is that if I get tired of being hounded to become a Zombie, receive a Hug, or join a Mob Wars, I can quickly & easily opt out of receiving any future hounding from any one of those apps. Oh, wait... just blocked 5 more annoying apps :-)