I began to click the links and search for opt-out links or instructions and put together a short list of the biggest offenders.

In 5 minutes or less you can re-claim your DM box! Here’s how:

Auto DM’s

Most of them plain suck. People have not figured out how to engage people with this opportunity and worse they are being used by spammers to send DM’s for every offer under the sun.

If you want to get rid of automated DM’s its pretty simple. The majority of them come from SocialOOmph.com and here is how you can stop them:

Go to http://twitter.com/optmeout and follow this profile.

Minutes later you will notice they are following you back.

Send a DM to @optmeout – Send anything (I used the DM “abc”)

Go back to http://twitter.com/optmeout and Unfollow and you will receive a DM that looks like this

140 games

Home to many of the quizzes, games, and yes, they have their own Mafia game.

Click this link http://lolquiz.com/optout

It will redirect back to Twitter and ask for you to “Allow LOL quiz access”

Click the allow button and your good to go.

Poll Pigeon

Home to many of Twitters top polls and another big offender of the DM box.

Click this link http://pollpigeon.com/optout/

Click the “Don’t send me any Direct Messages” button and you’re good to go.

Twables / FB140

Twables has a bunch of different applications but the most popular and annoying is an app that tells your Facebook Friends you’re on Twitter. When you opt in for this – It sends your followers a Dm that looks like the one below.

After some serious digging and stumbling across a cleverly disguised opt out link, I figured this one out and found out how to remove yourself from their list.

http://www.twables.com/opt <—– Click here to opt out of FB/140

In 5 minutes or less you can get rid of 90% of the spam you get now by doing the above steps!

How to use your facebook wall the correct way.

Your Facebook wall is an important piece of real estate for you and or your business. In this video I will demonstrate why you should clean it up and make it a space that works for you to drive business and add value – by removing a lot of the crap that is cluttering up your wall and making people click away.

Think of your Facebook wall as your blog or website – it serves a similar purpose and probably gets as much traffic. It adds credbility, can establish you as a thought leader in your niche, shows social proof and much more. It’s a space that you want people spending time on and not being driven away by annoying third party applications that are cluttering your wall now.

Or worse clicking to see what photo or status update you made a comment on or liked and leaving your facebook wall to visit someone else’s wall. You can remove those updates. You should remove those updates and trails of activity on facebook.

The reason people spend so much time on facebook is simple – they get lost in it. If they come to your wall – don’t entice them to leave, keep them there as long as you can. By cleaning up your wall (removing activity, removing comments, etc) you stand the best chance to captivate them and build the relationship or connection with you further.

Check out this video I made for you to demonstrate my point

“How to clean up your facebook wall and why you should”