I’m not sure who’s more at fault here: (1) Facebook for allowing Flixster to push this data out to you; (2) Flixster for pushing the data out to you; or (3) your friends for doing stupid quizzes in the first place.

This comic explains pretty much why i left Facebook a week ago.

Simply stupid.
If you want to take a movie quiz, go to a Cinema, and socialize there

I feel like the only person who’s been using facebook since the early days when it was college only and does not actively use any applications.

Its the same reason I rarely visit youtube. Most of the content available is entertaining but serves zero value. Just like watching celebrity news.

I value my time.

For additional irony points: the guy on the right should be dressed like a werewolf/zombie/pirate.

Re comment 1, Flixster is considerably more aggressive than other apps in pushing info about people’s ratings, quizzes, etc to other friends in its default settings. Even the zombie/superpoke/ninja stuff is more easily tweakable and ignorable.

I remember adding a very bookish/intellectual friend on Facebook, and the first correspondence I got from her was a breathlessly worded invite (courtesy of Flixster’s marketing department) to take a Dirty Dancing quiz. Turns out she just meant to take the quiz with a couple of friends as a joke, but it sent the invite to her entire friend list.

This of course underscores Facebook’s current strengths and weaknesses in a nutshell — it’s great you can customize settings and privacy on apps, but the settings are still applied across too broad a spectrum of one’s friend list. The ability to tweak the app settings so that you can have multiple “identities” — zombify your old college buddies on the one hand, simply share birthday info and calendars with co-workers on the other — is still very limited.

This comic explains pretty much why i left Facebook a week ago

It’s funny how little the web has changed in some aspects. The amount of junk I get on Facebook from friends reminds me of the amount of junk chain mails I use to get from friends years ago. If you do something old in a new way, it’s all the rage.

[...]Facebook Movie Quiz [...] I have too left Facebook 3 weeks back, but on other reason

I left facebook for a few reasons, and the constant “John wants you to do this quiz” or “Sarah wants you to join this group”… most social-networks are a waste of time at the end of the day.

I have to agree with Samantha, I can’t help but feel Facebook is just a place to “collect” friends and get them to do their applications but they don’t actually participate in actual, proper conversation.

Facebook has since implemented an option to ignore all requests, and I believe that they’re working on an option to block all requests. But for now, I think you can block an application from sending you any requests.

cool facebook comic!