Have You Caught the Farmville Plague?

Oct 20, 2010 by mandeewidrick

If you’re a Facebook user, you’ve probably received Farmville invites from your friends. Am I right? Of course I’m right. You can’t be on Facebook and NOT receive a Farmville invite at least once. It’s rampant. People are obsessed.

I don’t play Farmville and never have, so my post today may not be terribly educated in terms of how the game works internally. From what I’ve seen and heard of it though, it’s a game that sucks people in by huge masses, and requires them to invite their friends so they can build a virtual farm and earn things like pets and plants.

So, after receiving more invites than I could count, I blocked Farmville invites. That’s right…blocked. If you’re wondering why I haven’t joined your little farmland, it’s because my account is now rejecting anything Farmville-related. Oh the joy I felt when I saw that link for “Block this Application”! I clicked it and celebrated, and I’ve been Farmville-free ever since.

Wondering how you can block a game invite? There are two ways: either go to the page where all of your requests (friend requests, event invites, etc.) are featured and look for the “Block invites” link under the invitation, or go directly to the game page and below the profile photo click “Block this application”.  This tip stands true for any annoying game invites you may be receiving.

If you aren’t receiving invites but the Farmville news is showing up in your feed, you can get rid of that too. Just roll your mouse over to the right side of the status update until a little “X” shows up. Click it, and it will give you the option to hide the application.

And as an extra bonus, I decided to see how many people were searching how to block Farmville on Google every month. Take a gander at this, Farmville users.

For some reason, those results are not surprising in the least. In closing, I stumbled across a fan page on Facebook entitled, I Hate Farmville. I joined.