Saturday, January 05, 2008

Facebook Application Madness

Since Facebook added the feature to allow custom applications to be added, many Facebook users have gotten out of control with adding these annoying and mostly useless applications to their profiles. I don't mind a few apps here and there, but when you have to scroll down through ten pages of garbage just to post on a friend's wall, that's getting ridiculous.

Also see my list of Useful Facebook Applications.

If you have a friend who litters their Facebook profile with every application they can find, simply click on this little green icon below their profile picture to be taken directly to their wall. (See the image to the right)

If you absolutely must have all of these applications, do your friends a favor and simply drag them to the left hand column so we can get to your wall quickly!

Note to Facebook admins: end this madness before you succumb to mass, trashy feel of MySpace. I wouldn't go back to Myspace, but I'm beginning to get annoyed with the junk accumulating on Facebook. What happened to that clean, unadultered Facebook we all knew and loved?

Here's a short list of the culprit, junk Facebook applications:

  • Vampires
  • Zombies
  • WereWolves
  • Happy Hour
  • Harry Potter Magic Spells
  • Booze Mail
  • I love Dogs
  • Kind of Eyes
  • Superwall
    (It's cool that you can post photos, but then people end up posting junk like they do on Myspace.)
  • Funwall
  • Youtube skins
  • Fortune Cookie
  • X-Me
  • Astrology
  • Horoscopes
  • Games
  • Knock Knock Jokes
  • Superpoke (can be mildly entertaining and good timewaster)
  • Causes
  • Honesty Box
  • Emote
  • Tarot
  • Numerology
  • Compare People
  • Pirates vs. Ninjas
  • Superlatives
  • No Mercy
  • What's your stripper name
  • Double Dare
  • Food Fight
  • Magic 8 Ball
  • Social Profile
  • Spark
  • Beer!
  • I wanna get Leid!
  • Scrapbox
  • Advanced wall
  • Naughty gifts
  • My Aquarium
  • Jack-o-Lantern
  • My Solar System
  • Beer Pong
  • Are you interested
  • Circle of Friends
  • Inner Circle
  • What flower are you
  • What kind of eyes do you have
This is just a sampling from one profile. The list could go on and on, there's junk and advertising laden applications being developed every day. Oh Joy!

A note the high school kids, you can show some maturity by NOT adding 100 useless and space-wasting applications to your profile.

Cheers and Happy Facebooking!

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