We’ve all been victimized a Facebook marketing scheme that uses our Facebook friends list as it’s sole means of propagation. You can’t blame the marketers. Facebook makes it possible for all of this to happen. Marketers are motivated only by opportunity.

It’s EASY to remove an “app” that does nothing other than spam it’s marketing message. Often, users are confused about exactly what is happening and how to correct the situation when an app seemingly takes over their Facebook account.

Here’s the scenario:

You’re looking at your own News Feed on Facebook and you see something that looks interesting. It may be an event or “app” that a friend has recently interacted with. “If they did it, it’s probably okay” is the mental leap marketers very correctly assume you will make… and then you are “infected” by what some might call malicious code.

Don’t worry, this isn’t like a virus in your computer’s operating system. It’s really not even a virus. The “code” is somewhat of an annoyance, but you can turn it off.

Here’s how:

Visit this link to open your Facebook “remove spammy apps” page. In the list of apps, look for the one you clicked on before the spam began. Hovering over the far right side of the same line where that “app” is listed will make an “X” appear.

Click that “X” to remove the offending “app” and your viral marketing nightmare is over.