How to Disable Facebook Apps Permanently

Date 20/2/2013
If you are not using Facebook for the apps and games the service makes available, but for staying in contact with a couple of close friends, colleagues and family, you may not like the constant invitation bombardment where someone invites you to join the latest social game or application on the social networking site.

If you see more “invited you to try” notifications on Facebook than anything else, you may want to consider turning off your ability to use Facebook apps, games and websites permanently. Keep in mind that this drastic step will also prevent you from using Facebook to sign in or up on third party websites that are offering Facebook users the option to authorize using their Facebook login credentials.

To turn of apps on Facebook do the following steps: 
  • Open the Facebook website and log in to your account.
  • Click on the down arrow icon next to the Home link in the top bar and select Privacy Settings from the context menu.
  • Click on the Apps setting tab.Where you can see a list of Apps that you are using currently now click on the edit setting. see the image below. 
  After clicking on the edit option a new message option in opened. Now click on the "Turn off platform".
 
A click on Turn off displays an overlay image on the screen that provides you with additional information about the consequences of turning off the platform on Facebook.A click on turn off platform turns it off on Facebook. While you can turn it back on at a later time, all data that was previously available before you did turn it off won’t be available anymore.


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