Blocking People and Applications on Facebook

Blocking People and Applications on Facebook
Blocking someone on Facebook is more or less the digital equivalent of some combination of a restraining order and a witness protection program. For the most part, if you add someone to your Block list, he can't see any traces of you on Facebook.

You won't show up in his News Feed; if he looks at a photo in which you're tagged, he may see you in the photo (that's unavoidable), but he won't see that your name has been tagged. When you write on other people's Walls, that will be hidden from him, too. Here are a few key things to remember about blocking:

It's almost entirely reciprocal. If you block someone, then he is just as invisible to you as you are to him. So you can't access his Profile, nor will you see anything about him anywhere on the site. The only difference is that if you block the relationship, you're the only one who can unblock it.

This leads to an interesting fact about blocking. You might think that one person (let's call him Pedro) blocks another person (call her Lucy) because Pedro doesn't want Lucy to see what he's up to. In fact, Pedro is quite likely to block Lucy because he doesn't want to see anything about her anymore. Maybe they had a nasty break-up, or maybe he just can't stand the horrible spelling in her updates.

You can block only those people who are not your friends. If you go to a non-friend's Profile, you'll see an option to block the person at the bottom-left corner of her Profile. If you go to a friend's Profile, you'll have to remove that person as a friend before you can block her. If you block from the privacy page, you can enter the name or e-mail address of anyone, and you will automatically be unfriended (if you were friends), and that person will be blocked.

As you get going on the site, you may find out you know people who love to send a ton of application invites: "Play this game! And this game! Try this! Check out this!" You might even become that person.

But say that you don't turn out to be a big fan of using applications. Rather than block the overly friendly person who's sending you all those invitations, you can simply block invitations so that you can still interact with your friend in every other way, but you won't receive application invites. You can block both people and applications by going to the Privacy Settings page under Account. When you click Edit Your Lists underneath Block Lists, you'll see the options below.

In the Block App Invites section, enter the name of the person whose application invitations you don't want to see anymore. Facebook auto-completes names as you type. After you've blocked application invites from someone, that person's name will appear in a list beneath this text box followed by an Unblock link, which you can click after that person has finally come around and stops sending you so many invites.

The Block Event Invites section works in exactly the same way.
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