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Facebook Now Lets You Block Quiz Makers In One Fell Swoop

Source: TechCrunch

Oct 13, 2009

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Facebook has just announced the launch of a new Create Application API, which makes it easier than ever for users to build secondary apps based off of another app. It sounds like a good idea at first, but it comes with one nasty consequence: those viral and sometimes incredibly annoying quiz applications are going to become more popular than ever. Fortunately Facebook has had the foresight to release the new API with a complimentary new feature — you’ll now be able to block the parent application of any of these quizzes, which means you can hide many of them from your News Feed with one click of the ‘Hide’ button.

For those who haven’t tried out one of these quiz apps, here’s a refresher. There are a number of very popular quiz generators on Facebook that let people create their own, secondary applications that they can share with their friends. But actually going through the process is a bit tricky — users have to deal with Facebook’s developer app and API keys, which is hardly familiar territory for the vast majority of Facebook users (though many have m

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