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My Facebook Apps

The force of nature known as Clay tagged me for a blogmeme:

What Facebook apps do you have and why?

OK, let’s give it a shot, roughly grouped by “function”, then in descending order from most favorite to least useful:

Sharing:

  • My Facebook AppsPosted Items
    What a great way to share interesting bits with your FB network! It is simple and flexible (you can edit image, pullquote, and comment). And, as Clay mentioned, a much more social way of sharing than your del.icio.us list. One of the best parts of FB so far.
  • Twitter
    Works well. A little snapshot of my Tweets. Neat.
  • Video
    Very simple to share and watch others’ share videos - and who doesn’t love to share YouTube clips!?
  • Notes
    For the more verbose. I have not used this a lot, but I like it.
  • Blog Friends
    I love the concept that my friends’ blog updates get feed into my newsfeed - but so far only one or two other people have tied in their blogs to this service, and so the utility is close to zero. But I like the idea.
  • iLike
    Useless on its own. So I actually have the iLike plugin on my iTunes, but to get this to work, I have to spend time typing in artists, albums, songs … for what? why? Soon to be deleted.
  • Flickr
    If only it worked. This has had the same 6 photos since the day I installed it 9 months ago. Umm, hello?
  • Pandora
    Not bad, but … meh. Is anyone else using this?

Group Interaction:

  • My Questions
    A super fun way to interact with your FB network. Silly questions or serious - I always click when asked and usually try to answer. Try me!
  • Interactive Friends Graph
    Just installed this tonight, after being encouraged by Nancy W. Very cool. Not sure that I will ever look at it again, though.
  • Socialistics
    I do not know what this does.

Friendly Fun:

  • Scrabulous
    OMG I LOVE SCRABBLE! Also, I had pretty much quit playing any kind of game on the chaputer. Now I am back on my game. Suhweeet!
  • Free Gifts
    A fun way to share a warm or funny image/feeling with a friend.
  • X Me
    Neat but so far haven’t used it alot.
  • Super Wall
    See X Me
  • FunWall
    Really, I don’t think I need all these walls.
  • Zombies
    Kill me now.

Socializing:

  • Books iRead
    I really like this app. A great way to keep track of things I have read, which is something that I’d like to do. Also, as others adopt it, a good way to find good books from the reading lists of others who you are curious about.
  • Movies
    I dunno, I thought the survey was kind of silly. I prefer to spend my movie socializing effort over at Netflix.
  • Cal Football Fans
    Just showing my school colors.
  • US Politics
    Why did I install this?

I’m tagging Anny, Nancy, and Christina … what do you say, ladies?