Control Your Apps

If you enjoy a game of Bejeweled Blitz, Mafia Wars or any of the other thousands of games and applications on Facebook - this post is for you. Don't act all surprised - you know who you are!

I won't tell you not to play these games - just to control your updates ...

Let's get to it.

- Click on Applications (lower left of FB)

- Click Edit Applications

- All of your applications will be listed here, pick one of those pesky games and ...

- Click Edit Settings

A box will pop up with 3 tabs - Profile, Bookmark and Additional Permissions.

On the 1st tab, the Profile tab -

- You may have a "Privacy" option dropdown (use this to narrow down who can see this application on your profile)

Let's focus on the 3rd tab, Additional Permissions -

- Uncheck the box that says "allow this application to publish stories to my wall"

Finally, one last way to keep your application updates in check ...

Lots of people are using the Living Social application - you know, pick 5 of this or that. If you do - that's fine, I'm totally down, even post that sucker on your wall if you want me to know "5 Things You Can't Leave the House Without", the "5 Things You Hate that Everyone Else Seems to Love" or your "Top 5 Celebrity Crushes".

Remember that you always have a choice - see the Publish or Skip buttons? Pick "Skip" to avoid posting this sucker on your wall.

Many of these apps will keep pushing you to publish or share - how else can they get the word out? Makes sense, but don't fall for it.

SKIP. Got it? TGIF (almost) ...