I tend to avoid Facebook apps that ask for permissions that don’t seem necessary. This turns out to be a lot of apps!
http://apps.secure.me can help. They catalog and track over 500,000 Facebook apps by their permissions, and by their use (or misuse) of those permissions.
They provide several ways to look up the app in question.
One quick and easy check, and you can decide if an app is safe!

Something about the app icons marching across the main secure.me page with their “reputations” displayed is very comforting!

Flipboard (one of my all-time favorite apps on iOS) has a very good Facebook reputation, despite asking for permissions it doesn’t need (because it doesn’t misuse those permissions).

On any app that you’ve accessed on Facebook, you can remove some of the permissions it asks for. Go to the settings for that app and simply click the “X” next to the permission you don’t want it to have. Now you can access the app without the app accessing you!.
Note: 86Words will do a post in the near future specifically on the topic of changing Facebook app permissions for our users who need the assist!
http://apps.secure.me
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