# Help with Facebook: Removing a tab thingie

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-facebook-removing-a-tab-thingie/551723>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 27, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-facebook-removing-a-tab-thingie/551723 "2010-08-27T22:04:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-facebook-removing-a-tab-thingie/551723/1 "2010-08-27T22:04:23Z")

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I have a [tab thingie](http://i330.photobucket.com/albums/l438/AClockworkMelon/NickFacebook.jpg) underneath my menu on Facebook and I’m not quite sure how to get rid of it. I’ve clicked on it and gone through all the options and there doesn’t seem to be a way to delete it. It doesn’t show up as a page on my profile so the only person who can see it is me. But it’s there every time I log in and it bothers the hell out of me.

I’ve seen Myspace/Facebook/Twitter questions here before so I figured one of you might know how to get rid of it.

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**Author:** ![lexi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lexi/32/6806_2.png) [@lexi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lexi)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-facebook-removing-a-tab-thingie/551723/2 "2010-08-27T22:52:33Z")

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Those are recently used applications. Do you use the XBOX 360 live connect? If so that is why it is there.

If not, got to account \> application settings find it & remove the app.

Eventually, if you don’t use it again - it will go away.

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**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-facebook-removing-a-tab-thingie/551723/3 "2010-08-27T23:33:01Z")

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You visit another website than the SDMB?

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**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-facebook-removing-a-tab-thingie/551723/4 "2010-08-28T01:18:22Z")

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It’s an open relationship. I would get tested after visiting Facebook, though. Some people are “friends,” (I assume with benefits) with hundreds on there.

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**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-facebook-removing-a-tab-thingie/551723/5 "2010-08-28T01:36:01Z")

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> [@lexi](#):
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> If not, got to account \> application settings find it & remove the app.
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> Eventually, if you don’t use it again - it will go away.

Thanks- that did it. 🙂 I had been under the impression that simply removing the tab on my profile would have been enough to kill the bastard but, obviously, it wasn’t.

> [@needscoffee](#):
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> You visit another website than the SDMB?

I visit the SDMB when I’m sleeping. Can’t you tell from my content?

> [@thelurkinghorror](#):
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> It’s an open relationship. I would get tested after visiting Facebook, though. Some people are “friends,” (I assume with benefits) with hundreds on there.

70% of internet users are /b/tards. You could have the cancer that is killing /b/ and not even know it. We call a person like that an asymptomatic carrier.