I’ve been hooked on Facebook.com since college. I don’t think I discovered it until midway through my fourth year in school but I have logged in at least four times a week since then. Usually more but I don’t want to make myself sound like too much of an addict.
Within the last year or so, facebook added the ability to customize your page which I am assuming was an attempt to really compete with myspace. I don’t know how successful it has been because I think most of us are on both facebook and myspace but what do I know. I am still amazed at the variety of applications that one may add. Harry Potter Spells. Food Fight! Happy Hour. iLike. Flixster. Friend Wheel. Politcal Compass. Free Gifts. Book Club. It’s border line insane really.
Recently I added the “Compare People” application. Not because I really wanted to compare people but because I was curious about what it was. I kept getting notifications that I had been compared and I was curious. Who had I been compared to? Was it good stuff or bad stuff? The knowledge that this application was out there was starting to make me paranoid… I had to know!
Upon adding the application, I discovered that I am ranked with in my group of friends as the second sexiest person and the third person you would want to be in handcuffs with. I’m not quite sure how I feel about that. I do know that the person who beats me on the sexiness category is an exboyfriend of mine. Having “been there, done that” I think the individuals utilizing the application might be mistaken. I am also not sure who beats me for the handcuffs and it might be better that I not know.
I also discovered that I am horrified by the application. Who the hell am I to compare my friends? Furthermore, who the hell are you to compare me? A friend of mine from work left a comment on my wall “Dorie, I cannot be compared”. I think she was right.
I’m not ready to take the appliation down yet. I think there is a lot about myself and the way I view my friends that I need to learn from it yet.
Linus Kendall said...
1Hey,
Nice reading your blog – came across it in one of my feeds.
I agree with you – it certainly is scary how many applications that you might add and feel they’re pretty innocent but then you might realize that you’re not entirely comfortable about how they treat your information.
We have been working to develop an application at my company Rebtel and we had long and hard discussions about how it could be used and if we were comfortable with that.
We ended up with the Reb Me widget, which was the run-down of the features we wanted.
What other applications have you tried out?
-Linus
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