Let preface this by saying I actually do love facebook and check it a few times a day. I have followed them as a company from the moment my school was listed, several years ago. There were even thoughts in the past of applying for a job there.

Now to my little rant… These applications are getting out of hand. Mainly the invites and notifications, but most of the applications them self suck as well. This isn’t facebook’s fault, I blame the developers. I get all excited when I login and have a bunch of new notifications. Maybe I got tagged in a new picture? Maybe a new wall post? 9 out of 10 times it was a notification from an application about some nonsense. I have since removed every application except one.

For weeks I have been collecting invite requests. Only recently facebook added a clear all button, but I want to see how many I can rack up. At the time of writing I have 106 application invites. Most of these invites come from people I never speak to or most likely ever will again (not because of the invites). The whole invite process leads me to believe that they are sent out automaticly or are simply part of a “click here to get to the damn application”, in which case they have automatically selected a few people and by the user clicking, it sends to the first 10 or so selected people. My name starts with an “A”. I most likely appear near the top of all of my friend’s lists. I am a prime candidate for application invite hell.

I wont even get into how pointless most of these applications are right now. The only application that I am running is SnowTick, which gives me updates on how much snow the mountains I ride at have gotten. Theres a great development mantra that facebook application developers refuse to follow. MAKE THINGS PEOPLE WANT!

Click the invite thumbnail to see the full list!