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How to Use Facebook -- Banish Exes, Block Status Addicts and More {Lemondrop}

Apr 20th 2010 5:49PM @Ivyfree - Two things to "block" FarmVille or any app. First, on your news feed, find something about it. Move your mouse to the top left hand corner of that little blurb, and a HIDE button will appear. Click it. The now middle button will say Hide (Application Name Here). Click that. No more of that app in your news feeds.
Second, go to your requests. Find one from FarmVille or any other hated app. There is a little blue link right under it that says Block This Application. No more requests from that app.
It WILL still show on your friends walls who play it. Might I suggest you agree to disagree with those friends about how to best waste time, or unwind from a long day at work, or just have some fun. :-)

For EVERYONE, to see just status updates and not pics or applications and who's newly friends w/ who - On the main page, click on the Friends thing on the top right. Then click Status Updates under that. Can't permanently set it to this, but it's only 2 clicks.

Disney Does the Same Dance Again and Again {Urlesque}

Mar 31st 2010 2:20AM Ok, the point the article makes is interresting and pretty funny.
The order of production, however, is terribly wrong.
Robin Hood wasn't the Rosetta Stone. Robin Hood had NO new dances.
Get your facts straight.
And yes this has been said. It's embarrassing that it's wrong. or at least the author SHOULD be embarrased.

Nothing personal: Two grocery chains attempt to ban check-writing customers {Daily Finance}

Sep 22nd 2009 6:46PM From the retailer's perspective, checks are a pain in the behind.
Most corporate offices require that certain things be printed on the check. Like your full name as it appears on your driver's licence and your full non-PO box address. And that has to match what's on your licence. Then they need your phone number, either printed or written.
And have to write your licence number on the check.

So what if you live somewhere other than your mailing address? You wanted "privacy" and pnly had your initials printed on your check? Or you don't like giving out your phone number? What if you just moved, and have not updated your checks or your licence? No writing a check for you. And who tries to write a check when they have another method of payment? Nobody. So, no sale, angry customer, waste of 5 to 10 minutes.

Then the check has to go through a machine and be cleared. Since so few people write checks, unfortunately when these machines go out, it is not at all a priority of the company. So you get to call a verification hotline. And spend about 5-7 minutes on the phone. All while the customer is standing there waiting for you, and the line is backig up.
And as far as trainig new employees as to what they need to do when someone writes a check? Again, the low number of checks written makes this hard. By the time someone else writes a check, you totally forgot what you're supposed to do.

This is all before you account for returned checks and the enormous hassle involved in those.

It's not about the 2 or 3 minutes it takes you to write the name of the store and the ammount of the sale. (And for goodness sake, don't ask me what store you're in!) It's about the other things that take time, and make people feel invaded and angry. And no one likes when the employee has to call a manager to ask what to do, or discuss the issues with the check, or ANYTHING.

This does not a good retail experience make!