OK, so, let me get this straight. I can purchase special candies or win them from the Candy Crush Booster Wheel, like Jelly Fish in jelly clearing boards that clear three pieces from the board at random, or the Coconut Wheel on ingredient-dropping boards that changes three candies in a row into striped candies, or Lucky Candy in recipe boards that, well, kind of magically make me scream…
GAAAHHHHH!!!! I have no need for this game nor any of this convoluted, time-sucking candy game knowledge!
If you’re like me, you’ll be pleased as fruit punch to hear that Mark Zuckerberg announced on Wednesday that Facebook is crushing outdated tools that send its users notifications on games they’ve never played and couldn’t give a sugar-coated hoot about.
The top-voted question on a thread advertising Zuckerberg’s first-ever town hall Q&A session in India was this:
I don't want any more invitations to Candy Crush. How can I stop it?
The question had been asked by someone on Zuckerberg’s Facebook post advertising the event. When it was read aloud at the event, the audience cheered.
Facebook’s CEO responded by assuring his audience that Facebook is on it – in fact, it’s a priority, given how irritated users are.
The BBC transcribed his response:
This is where these Town Hall Q&As are really useful because I actually saw this question, that it was the top voted question on my thread.
So I sent a message to the person who runs the team in charge of our developer platform and I said by the time I do this Town Hall Q&A, I think it would be good if we had a solution to this problem.
Zuckerberg was told that there there are “some tools that are kind of outdated” that allow users to send invitations to people who’ve already received the requests in the past and those who “don’t play games on Facebook”.
Zuckerberg added that it wasn’t a priority before, but given the annoyance factor displayed by the upvoting of the kill-Candy-Crush-invitations question, well, it’s sure shot to the top now:
We hadn't prioritized shutting that down because we just had other priorities. But if this is the top thing that people care about, then we'll prioritize that and we'll do it.
So we're doing it.
So far, Facebook hasn’t released any details about how and when Candy Crush invitations will be crushed.
Image of Candy Crush Facebook game courtesy of dolphfyn / Shutterstock.com
Andy
Don’t worry, Facebook will find new ways to annoy you. The only way to avoid that digital kick in the junk is to stop using Facebook.
Elaine
Maybe at the next Q&A session someone could ask when Facebook will allow users to keep their timelines set to “Most Recent” instead of “Top Stories”. This is a top annoyance on the Facebook Forums but the powers that be at Facebook won’t listen to this one. Advertising revenue seems to be the reason.
Wendy Saunders Coady
Then can they please work on Criminal Case? If I don’t remember to unclick “Share” my wall is littered with every investigation, and my friends find it amazingly annoying if they don’t play. Yes, I’ve told them how to not get game notifications, but when my FB memories are 20 35 Criminal Case notifications it’s just ridiculous.
Adam
As I remember, you can edit your Facebook visibility preferences for all your games to make any game posts only visible to you, select friends, all your friends, or everyone.
If you set it to only be visible to you, then it’s irrelevant whether you unclick “Share” or not.
Don Miller
I just block games/sites that send me invitations I don’t want. Then I never get them again.