Hate Candy Crush invites? Facebook is about to kill them

The days of receiving endless, annoying Candy Crush invites may become a thing of the past, according to Facebook.

Speaking at a Townhall Q&A session at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, Mark Zuckerberg claimed that Facebookengineers were looking at a "solution" for the problem.

"This is where these Q&As are really useful because I actually saw this question because it was the top voted question on the thread," Zuckerberg said.

"So I sent a message to the person who runs the team in charge of our developer platform and I said by the time I do this Town Hall Q&A, I think it would be good if we had a solution to this problem."

The Q&A sessions allow Facebook users to ask Zuckerberg questions about features, user experience and development behind the scenes at the social network.

The developer told Zuckerberg that Facebook had a "number of tools" that allowed users to send game invitations to both those who don't play games on Facebook and those who had received, and declined, invites in the past.

"We hadn't prioritised shutting that down because we just had other priorities," he said. "But if this is the top thing that people care about then we'll prioritise that and we'll do it. So we're doing it."

Facebook has not yet announced how and when the changes will be made.