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I have been playing with Facebook recently & trying out different apps. I thought I would just write down my reviews for each of the apps I tried & share some views as well.

Applications tried so far:

  1. What does your day of the birth say?
    1. Asks to enter birth date – doesn’t have it pre-populated from Facebook
    2. Says something about the day I was born like: Adventurous, Great sense of humor, Loves to enjoy life, etc.
    3. Has ads of other apps
    4. My Review: Not exciting.
  2. Magic Fortune Cookie
    1. Simply flashes a line of text that says what I am going to do today or in the near future. Also has some numbers being displayed.
    2. Has ads of other apps & other external ads also
    3. My Review: Just shows randomly things you might do, but unreal. Not exciting, except for the things that it shows.
  3. Love personality test
    1. Has a questionnaire of around 8 to 10 questions. Based on that, gives the result.
    2. My Review: Didn’t complete this. I think I hate apps that answer more than 4-5 questions. :)
  4. How sexy is your name?
    1. Asks to add up certain numbers associated with letters in your name. Based on the sum, it determines whether your name is sexy or not.
    2. Has external ads & ads of other apps like ‘Find out your top follower’.
    3. My Review: Didn’t complete this one too. I think it’s something unreal & I found it to be a waste of time to sit & add the numbers associated with my alphabets to tell me how sexy is my name. :)
  5. Farmville - Game
    1. Provides the user with a farm. Allows user to plough, harvest, etc. After ploughing a crop, asks the user to come after a particular time (time taken by the crop to grow). This way, user keeps coming back again & again.
    2. My Review: This is one of the popular games on Facebook. I hate the idea of going back again & again when my crop is fully grown & then harvest.
  6. Think fast challenge
    1. Directly asks for Name, email & mobile number on the first page of the application itself. A good way to collect email addresses. But even after I entered my correct number, it said “Please Enter Valid Mobile No.” J
    2. My Review: It said it will ask 200 questions which we need to answer in 60 seconds. But they didn’t let me go off the first page itself where they kept asking for my mobile number despite providing it correct 3-4 times. I am not sure what the questions would be, but this app is definitely not something which it says it is, people won’t sit & answer 200 questions…
  7. Death’s time
    1. Simply populates your birth date from Facebook by default & asks you to Submit. After hitting Submit, gives a random day of death along with a random cause.
    2. My Review: This app catches your attention once you see it on your WALL. Same happened with me. I went to the app, it had my birthday pre-populated from Facebook. All I had to do was click ‘Submit’ & it showed me randomly what my death time & reason was. I am going to heaven in 2014 :)
  8. What do your friends think about you?
    1. Asks to choose 4 friends from your friend list. Wasn’t able to complete this one as I couldn’t really understand what this app was doing. J
    2. My Review: Refer to ‘a’ :)
  9. Are you going to heaven or hell?
    1. Another quiz type app which asks questions whether you believe in God, whether you forgive your enemy, etc. And of course, you go to heaven or hell based on your answers to those 5-6 questions.
    2. My Review: Found this one to be an average app. Not exciting, but since they kept it to 5-6 questions, I took it & the options have been formed well too.

After reviewing all the above apps, what I found was 80% of the apps have either external ads or have ads of other Facebook apps on them. The first thing that came to my mind was: Is this spamming of applications? I think yes.

There are way too many meaningless apps or apps that simply seem to be have made to host other ads & have more clicks. I am not sure if that is acceptable under Facebook terms or not.

Facebook is definitely changing the way people interact & changing it in a big way.

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