Keeping your Facebook clean from quiz results, application photos and more

Applications on Facebook and their automatic quiz result feed, photo feed and message feed are a huge problem on Facebook. These applications are annoying and they spread like virus by exploiting your friends. Some applications even lead to loss of money by exploiting your mobile phone or credit card.

In our example, we want to keep Facebook clean, so, that the news feed will show status messages of friends, shared things from friends and other friends related content.

We want to block annoying applications by installing an open source filter in our browser.

We are using Firefox on a Ubuntu operating system.

1. We need to install a script parser, that can parse user scripts. In our example, we will use Greasemonkey. We confirm, that we are using a version of Firefox, that the Greasemonkey add-on supports. Then we download it, install it and restart our browser.
2. We need to install the user script, that will do the actual filtering. In our example, we will install the Facebook Purity script. We install it, restart the browser and open Facebook. We notice, that our Facebook is clean, and, that there is statistics in the top.
3. We need to update the script from time to time because Facebook implements changes to the programming code from time to time. In order to do this, we need to delete the script before we install the updated script. We do this by clicking Edit, Preferences, Main, “Manage Add-ons”, Greasemonkey, Preferences and then Uninstall. Then, we install the Facebook Purity script again.