Facebook has become ubiquitous as an applications platform in the last few months, but it is also becoming notorious for causing friends to spam friends.

Most applications in Facebook now offer users an incentive to get users to invite their friends to use the application. That is all fine and good if your friends might want the application (and you’re not sending them multiple invites to the same application), but most people aren’t interested and you could wind up scaring away or pissing off your friends by spamming them with too many invites. No one wants that.

Luckily, I have found a simple solution that allows you to get your incentive (that money I talked about in the title, added abilities, higher levels…) without spamming your friends.

Just follow these three easy steps:

1. Drag the bookmarklet on this page to your bookmarks or bookmark toolbar.
2. Go to your favorite Facebook application’s invite page.
3. Click the boorkmarklet that you added in step one and enter the number of invites you want the application to believe you’re sending.

That is it! You should have more money, points, and/or abilities without sending any real invites! Your friends will thank you for it.

If you are interested in more on the subject, check out this recent post on TechCrunch that details what Facebook is trying to do to help remedy the spamming issue.

THUMB DOWN STUMBLE CARDS!

If you’ve reached this page from StumbleUpon, then there is a good chance you’ve recently encountered a Stumble Card, or two, or twenty. You’re probably reading this and wishing they would go away already, but for those not familiar, they look like this:

They’re nothing but an image… and ADS! There is nothing really redeeming about them and they’re just a cheap way of hocking AdWords to you, so please, thumb down Stumble Cards when you find them.