The great thing about your Facebook Wall is that it’s a wonderful way for both you and your friends to share information with others. Unfortunately, it can quickly get cluttered with e-flowers, gifts, pillows, and other such nonsense, that really don’t add any value. If they were sent specifically to you, perhaps it could be seen as a nice gesture. But more often than not, someone has just blindly sent it to their entire address book, making their well wishes just a little bit disingenuous.

The problem is, this social junk takes up valuable wall space and restricts good conversation. And like it or not, the appearance of your wall contributes to your personal brand.

But no worries, we’re going to present several ways to keep your wall clean, keeping it humming along with cool content and conversations.

1. Keep an eye on your wall and remove the junk

The most obvious approach – just check in on your wall from time to time and remove the junk posts. It’s tedious, but it’s a good habit to get into.

2. Remove the offending application

I bet you didn’t know this, but just clicking on a spammy post will add it to your list of applications. Facebook does this so that you can control the privacy settings. But even if you take step 1 above of removing the post, it may still appear to others on your wall. Remove the app by going to Application Settings.

3. Block offending applications

Go to the application page and underneath the logo, you should see a “Block Application” link. This will ensure that you no longer receive unwanted pillow fights or vampire bites. I can’t believe someone thought these apps would be entertaining.

4. Preemptively block spammy applications

Before a major holiday (hint hint, Easter’s coming up..), I do a search for the most popular holiday apps and block them. That way, I won’t receive their notifications when the holiday arrives. I did this for Valentines Day and only received one post on my wall. So either this approach is wildly successful or I’m very unpopular. Hmm.. Let’s not dwell on that one too much..

5. Be prepared to block the most serious offenders

The occasional e-gift is no big deal, but if someone posts something offensive on your wall, be prepared to take evasive maneuvers. Take the steps above and then go to the senders profile page – in the bottom left, you should see a link “Report/Block this Person”.

6. Stop your friends from posting on your wall

This one is really a last resort. The whole point of Facebook is to have friends of friends networking with each other. So I would highly encourage letting your friends post valuable info on your wall (i.e.: tag you in a post). But if none of the options above work for you, then you may have no other choice but to limit wall posting to only yourself. Friends can comment on your posts, but they (or their apps) can’t post directly to your wall. To do this, go to Privacy Settings > Profile Information. Uncheck Allow friends to post on my Wall.

7. Choose better friends

This step is my favorite. Choose friends who have the perspicacity to not install or use these types of apps. Problem solved.