Sick of endless Candy Crush and Farmville invites? There is light at the end of the tunnel

Facebook is now tackling one of its most requested features – casual online game invites

FACEBOOK is turning its attention to one of the most requested features – a simple way to block all online game invites.

 

Facebook appears to be rattling through a hefty To Do list of requested features.

After finally unveiling its long-rumoured Dislike button and ditching the frustrating Other Inbox, Facebook is now tackling one of its most requested features – unwanted Candy Crush and other casual online game invites.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed the US social network is hard at work on a solution to the problem.

 

The technology entrepreneur – and ninth richest man in the world – took to the stage at the Townhall Q&A at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, India earlier today.

Mr Zuckerberg revealed that the Candy Crush game invite blight had become the most upvoted question in an online thread – so he decided to act.

He told the crowd: "I sent a message to the person who runs the team in charge of our developer platform, and I said that by the time I do this Townhall Q&A, it would be good if we had a solution to this problem.

 

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said unwanted game notifications were one of the most requested items

"She emailed me later that night, and said there are some tools — that are kind of outdated — that allow people to send invitations to people who’ve never used a game, and don’t play games on Facebook.

"We hadn’t prioritised shutting that down, we just had other priorities. But if this is the top thing that people care about, we’ll prioritise that and do it. So we’re doing it!"

Unfortunately Mr Zuckerberg did not comment on a timescale for the requested functionality.

 

The Facebook CEO also refused to revealed how the US social service would solve the problem.

It's safe to assume Facebook won't close down the entire Candy Crush Saga invite system but instead will likely make it harder for people to pester their friends with a slew of unwanted invitations.