Crush the Candy Crush on Facebook

After scores of app requests everyday from my well-meaning friends, acquaintances, random-adds, and drunken mistakes on Facebook for Candy Crush, I was finally inspired to login to Facebook from my laptop and find a way to block it. If something is irritating enough for me to use Facebook on the laptop then there is disaster imminent, don't break eye contact but back out slowly. If you are one of the many silent and oppressed like me, fear no more for here is the sure shot way of blocking app requests from Candy Crush (or any other pesky popular Facebook app that people on theirs and your friend list have chosen to waste their time with).

Method 1

This method is probably the cleanest and most peaceful way to do this. You won't lose friends, teeth or money doing this and this method doesn't require any blood sacrifices to Occulentus.

1. Login to your Facebook account through your laptop (or desktop) [see Note 1 & 2 below]
2. There is this downward arrow on the top-right corner of the window, should look something like this: 
   
3. Click on it and behold in wonder as a drop-down box appears, it is basically your quick access menu for creating pages, settings, groups that you are an admin in, etc.
   
4. Click on Settings
   
5. The Settings page should open, your general run of the mill settings.
   
   
   
6. Our focus however, is towards the left of the Settings screen, see something called Blocking there? Ain't it pretty? Click on Blocking.
   
7. This is the motherlode. It might as well be the most important setting on your Facebook account after the Privacy section (there's loads to talk about in the Privacy section too but meh, if you were concerned about privacy you probably wouldn't be on FB would you). So yea, the Blocking screen. You will see various options like Block event invites (yes, there's only so many wedding invitations/birthdays you can tolerate), Block app invites, etc.
   
8. Scroll down till you see Block apps. There is a text field next to it, type in the pestilence of an app that has been bothering you (I chose Candy Crush and man were there many iterations! It is mutating!).
   
   
   
   
   
9. Facebook is sweet enough to display app names as you type to save you the few calories you might end up losing as you type. Select the app that needs to be shunned
   
10. Khallas habibi, you are done. It will display the app's name in your blocked list. Should you wish for a slow painful death you may go ahead and unblock that app on the same screen by clicking on Unblock
    

Method 2

This method might be useful in case of two scenarios:

1. You don't own / aren't in close proximity to / don't wish to use  a laptop or a desktop
2. Have covered all possible scenarios in point #1 so that you get immediate help in getting rid of the app and do not lose precious time and energy in ready peskily long scenarios that are never likely to happen or for that matter long unpunctuated statements such as these

The method is simple enough for you to follow on a basic grade education level, if any of the words I use here seem long and confusing then have a dictionary open next to you to help you understand. While you are there, look up the word Lummox. Lets dive into the method now, won't be using screenshots here because:

1. It is simple enough a method to follow without needing visual aids
2. I just can't be bothered right now
 

 The method:

1. Login to your Facebook account
2. Open the profile of the friend that has been sending you these app requests
3. Click on Unfriend [see Note 3]. To paraphrase a proverb in Hindi usually used in evil connotations (totally don't know what that means!), "No bamboo (from whence to make the flute) no flute (hence no noise)"

Note:

 

1. You cannot do this on your mobile phone, no matter how smart they get Facebook doesn't let them block apps for you. They are perhaps measuring how many notifications it takes you to finally login through the laptop (or the desktop) to do something about it and selling the collected info. Just saying. 
2. I haven't tested this on tabs so I don't know if it works through them but presumably it should, if it doesn't then let me know (here's where I gather some comments to this post)
 
3. The method is a little drastic, resort to it only after three written warnings/requests to the particular friend to stop sending you app requests
4. The screenshots used during the making of this blog are trained professionals, do not attempt to do these at home
5. No cats were harmed during the making of this blog