Aha! It's NOT just me.
Apr. 29th, 2009 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdymonkeyEveryone was doing it, you see. So I logged on for the first time. And they said, "Give us all the addresses in your email." So I stopped. Right. There. Visions of spammers and hackers danced in my head like a thousand smirky Hugo Weavings in cheap suits and dark glasses. Friends don't do that to friends. Not real friends anyway.
Then someone who is a rational, intelligent human being - or at the very least, my kind of crazy - friended me.
And somehow I tripped on a root and fell down the damned rabbit hole. And they asked me to put my home address and phone number in my profile! Sure, that's JUST what I need.
It's weird in there. It's pointless. It's all "Here, play this game," and "Here, I saw this roll of imaginary toilet paper and thought of you." WTF? Two whole people actually asked me how I've been.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/04/29/notes042909.DTL
I don't have enough hours in my day as it is.
Then someone who is a rational, intelligent human being - or at the very least, my kind of crazy - friended me.
And somehow I tripped on a root and fell down the damned rabbit hole. And they asked me to put my home address and phone number in my profile! Sure, that's JUST what I need.
It's weird in there. It's pointless. It's all "Here, play this game," and "Here, I saw this roll of imaginary toilet paper and thought of you." WTF? Two whole people actually asked me how I've been.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/04/29/notes042909.DTL
I don't have enough hours in my day as it is.
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Date: 2009-04-30 02:11 pm (UTC)So the big secret: On the right of every post, if you float your mouse, a "hide" item will appear. This will allow you to hide the person (which I don't do) or, if the post is created by an app, hide the app.
I hide almost every app that posts to me. I never have to see repeats of them again.
The other big secret: Once you've hidden an app, there's an "edit options" down at the bottom of the page. Click on that and it will give you a list of all the apps you've hidden. Click on an app name and you can go to the page for the app and block it.
Blocking apps is good, it prevents you from approving an app by accident.
The last big secret: If you find yourself on an approval page for an app, click the app name. That will take you to the page for the app so you can block it.
As for useful bits?
Visit your profile page. Under the "What's on your mind" over to the right there is a little "settings" link with a gear. Click it. Import the services you like, particularly the ones that don't make you enter a password and userid for the service. I import my public flickr stream, delicious bookmarks, public livejournal posts and shared google reader blog entries.