How To Play Facebook Games Without Driving Your Friends Insane

Step 1: Check your gaming permissions. If you haven't allowed applications to access your information or post as you, you might get a prompt to update this before you can play the game.

Step 2: Accept the permission request, if you know what you're getting into.

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Step 3: After accepting the permission changes, go to "Privacy Settings" at the drop down menu to the right of your top navigation bar.

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Step 4: Select to edit the Apps and Websites tab.

Step 5: Click "Edit Settings" next to the Apps section. You'll be limiting whose wall to spam (or not spam) here.

Step 5: Choose your gaming app and click "Edit." You will have to do this separately for each application.

Step 6: Change App activity privacy to "Only Me." Changing this will limit the people to whom your app activities are visible. "Only Me" is good for if you don't want anyone to see your gaming updates. Alternatively, you can set it to just the people you are playing against.

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Step 7: Go back to your game and check that the application now playable.

Step 8: Make sure your own wall isn't spammed. If you don't want to see gaming updates on your own feed either, go on your profile and click "Hide" to any activity related to the app from your wall or Timeline.

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