Image: View a screenshot from my Facebook profile
At one time, I added many apps to experiment, but I’ll have to admit, very few I use on a regular basis. I often discuss in my presentations that our research indicates that many folks use social networks to check out others profiles.
Apparently, I need to do some housecleaning as, my kid sister wrote this on my Facebook Wall this morning: “hello big brother!! your facebook profile is a JUNKYARD!”. She’s also the little darling who told me that “I only use email to get a hold of old people like you“.
Sigh, kids. As my former boss Kevin Eves used to tell me, “so it goes”.
I really don’t like how you have to add an app to your page to demo it.
I have minimized all my apps to make my page look clean. Most addicting apps on my page that waste lots of time if you get sucked in:
iLike music challenge – name that tune.
Reverb Nation – Who Digs it? It presents you with 3 icons and you have to guess which person dugg the track you are being played. A good exercise in judgment.
Dopewars – absolutely no value to wasting time on this app… But I do have a cartel and am worth $5M. I stayed up all night playing this one night. I was addicted to dope wars when I was a teen.
Scrabulous – I thought I was good at Scrabble. My father schooled me in Scrabble as a kid. Then I played some of these people.
lol Your sister is funny and kinda right 😉
I keep my apps to a minimum, mainly because I like the simplistic design of Facebook and keep my profile looking the same.
I try out the apps then delete the ones that I don’t continuously use – or use them in the ‘background’ and don’t show the app box on my profile.
HAHA! I’m glad I could be of an amusement to your networking buddies! 🙂 But seriously, take down some applications! I cringe at the sight of your profile. You have so much stuff on there, it took me like 2 minutes to find your wall!