International Law

Facebook's applications

Hear, hear to Dan Mitchell at the New York Times:

THIRD-PARTY applications are supposedly the secret to Facebook?s success.

So far, though, the applications fall mainly into two categories: the silly and the annoying (and sometimes, both). Users can throw virtual sheep at each other or take part in zombie attacks on their friends. Recently, many users received a message entreating them to ?click ?forward? to see what happens.? After clicking, users discovered that nothing happened except that they had annoyed their friends with a pointless message.

Many Facebook applications are ?for toddlers,?writes Kara Swisher, the technology journalist and blogger for All Things Digital. The ?kazillion users of these widgets are pretty much just acting like little children,? she wrote in October.

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Full post as published by Freedom to Differ on January 20, 2008 (boomark / email).