How to block FarmVille updates and notifications on Facebook

02/21/2010 15:20

FarmVille, Facebook's most popular game application can really go on your nerves at times by sending out status updates to your friends & receive theirs. Here are a few tricks of how to stop them.

If you don't know it by now, FarmVille is a real-time farm simulation game developed by Zynga, which is available on the social networking website Facebook. The strategy game allows Facebook members to run a virtual farm by planting, growing and harvesting virtual crops, trees, and raising livestock.

FarmVille has 80 million players and it's been named the most popular game application on Facebook.

What is so bad about it? The FarmVille advertises itself by sending out news feed updates to your friends whenever you manage to accomplish a milestone with your farm or character. When a lot of friends of yours are playing the game, these updates can be really frustrating.

Fortunately, it is possible to turn these news feeds updates off. Social media guide Mashable teaches you how to get rid off them and save you some future headaches.

Mashable writes:

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"Any time you see a FarmVille update in your news feed, move the mouse cursor to the right of the update and a “Hide” button will appear as seen above. Click on it.

As illustrated above, you’ll then be given the choice to either hide that friend or just the FarmVille app. Since you probably want to keep seeing your friend’s updates (we hope), click “Hide FarmVille.” This will hide FarmVille news feed posts from all your friends, not just the one who published that particular update."

The site also explains how to block FarmVille notifications.

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