Hey Facebook Friends, Read this!
The title is a little gratuitous, but I just added a Facebook application (my RSS) that publishes this blog's RSS feed to my Facebook profile.
The ability to create applications is both amazing and scary at the same time. It's amazing because at it's finest, it allows this expandable usability. Applications like birthday reminders, graffiti walls, and my RSS really let Facebook shine as a website that must be used daily. This coupled with Facebook's built in functionality like stories and poking, make it a clear MySpace wrecking creation.
The scary bits are the applications that are nothing more then attempts to emulate the failed charm that MySpace has. There's about fifty different ways to play "tag" with someone, everything from zombies to food fights. These applications are nothing more then cheap attempts by the authors to create an application that generates the most users. This isn't to say that the users are just as bad. How many methods are needed to assure your internet popularity?
The icing on the cake is the "Top Friends" application, which emulates MySpace's top friends. The catch? Users won't show on your top friends unless they also install the app and confirm your top friend invite.
Hopefully once the shiny new user application function loses it's hot new fad status and users start removing the nonsense, we'll see authors actually trying to create new, creative, and useful items for Facebook users to incorporate into their profiles.
But for now, tag, you're in my zombie vampire foodfight. At me as a top friend, spread the social virus, and keep reading this blog through Facebook.
The ability to create applications is both amazing and scary at the same time. It's amazing because at it's finest, it allows this expandable usability. Applications like birthday reminders, graffiti walls, and my RSS really let Facebook shine as a website that must be used daily. This coupled with Facebook's built in functionality like stories and poking, make it a clear MySpace wrecking creation.
The scary bits are the applications that are nothing more then attempts to emulate the failed charm that MySpace has. There's about fifty different ways to play "tag" with someone, everything from zombies to food fights. These applications are nothing more then cheap attempts by the authors to create an application that generates the most users. This isn't to say that the users are just as bad. How many methods are needed to assure your internet popularity?
The icing on the cake is the "Top Friends" application, which emulates MySpace's top friends. The catch? Users won't show on your top friends unless they also install the app and confirm your top friend invite.
Hopefully once the shiny new user application function loses it's hot new fad status and users start removing the nonsense, we'll see authors actually trying to create new, creative, and useful items for Facebook users to incorporate into their profiles.
But for now, tag, you're in my zombie vampire foodfight. At me as a top friend, spread the social virus, and keep reading this blog through Facebook.
posted by Allen M @ 7/24/2007 01:04:00 AM
2 Comments:
At 11:34 AM,
Fondu said…
dood, this is sooooo cool!
At 4:10 PM,
Matt said…
I feel the same way. There are a ton of crap facebook apps, and yes, a lot of them have no intrinsic value and serve virtually no practical purpose.
The main flaw with facebook's platform, in my opinion, is that to a use some apps, you need your friends to have added it as well(Like you said, "Top Friends"). The most useful apps are yet to come as facebook allows even deeper integration.
P.S. Allen I still need a Job! haha
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