On facebook, when you see one of those reports for a game (farmville, for example), when you see that someone just bought a cow, if you mouse over the top right corner and see the "x" appear, clicking it once will give you several choices. You can block that application only so that you only see the non-automated stuff from that person and any others when they're not playing that game. Horoscopes, contests, there are lots of things out there that I don't want cluttering my news/wall.

I had a good visit with the friend who came through, and now she's on the way to her next stop while she's in town.

SRS