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I want to block app and game invitations once for all in Facebook. How can I do it so they cannot disturb me anymore?

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You can block app invites from specific friends from Privacy Settings » Manage Blocking » Block app invites, and you can block specific apps from Privacy Settings » Manage Blocking » Block apps. If you do not use any Facebook apps or games and want to block them all from seeing any of your information or sending you invites, you can turn off Facebook Platform completely by going to Privacy Settings » Apps, Games, and Websites and clicking Turn off all apps.

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I completely forgot about the Turn off all apps option. – Dez Apr 3 '12 at 21:30
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It's worth noting that many services (such as Spotify) make it impossible (or at least difficult) to use them without attaching a Facebook app to your account, so you'd be essentially opting out of these services as well. Just a heads-up. – Koviko Apr 17 '12 at 17:58
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You cannot block all Facebook game invitations.

You can:

  1. Block game invites to a specific game
  2. Block game invites from a specific friend.

Some background: Facebook derives a significant portion of their revenue from applications on the platform, especially those that are games. By allowing people to completely opt-out of games at all they'd be shooting themselves in the bottom-line.

In summary, the reason that you cannot opt-out from all games is that Facebook doesn't have a feature that allows you to do so since that feature could easily kill a good portion of their revenue.

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