Easily Remove Facebook Applications And Protect Your Privacy

Social Reader Facebook applications and games which using open graph really annoying us and our friends these days by sharing our facebook actions automatically on timeline/wall.Some of the most annoying apps I found on facebook is daily motion and Yahoo reader.These applications shares most of our facebook activity to our friends and colleagues without our knowledge. Most of the time these application got installed when we try to read any article and video that our friends read ( who became a victim of these apps).These Facebook applications will spread the articles and videos you watched to your friends without your permission.

Today we will show you how to remove these unwanted, spammy,fake apps including games and other annoying ones from your facebook account.Facebook owner Mark  Zuckerberg  announced during facebook’s F8 conference that they are  removing the restrictions on user data retention within Facebook applications. These recent Facebook changes totally helping the developers to get more user information only because Facebook removed technical limitation on developer applications.

In my view,this move is totally against facebook users privacy.The new changes helped developers to store and cache any data of the facebook users for more than 24 hours.Before the developers can only store the facebook users data up to one day.

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These changes may sound overwhelming and even scary for the normal facebook users but you can easily get away from those spammy,fake or unwanted applications to save your privacy.

Step 1 : It’s simple ! Log in to your Facebook account

Step 2 : Go to your Facebook account top right corner and select “Privacy settings”  from Home tab.

Step 3: Now you will be on the privacy settings page.Scroll down and you will see “apps and websites ”  at the right extreme of the apps and websites area, click on the link that says  “Edit Settings ”

Step 4: You will now able to see “Apps you use” section,Click on edit settings.

Now you will be able to see all the applications that you authorized before to interact with your Facebook account.

Step 5 : click on the X at the right extreme of the application you want to remove.

Step 6 : Facebook will now ask you for confirm your action.Click on the remove button to confirm the removal of spammy,junk,unwanted facebook application.

I hope you got how to remove irritating,spammy applications from facebook.Let me know you have any difficulties in removing the apps from your facebook account.Share your findings in our comments section.