WOW I already have 13 (thirteen) users for my Facebook application showing your goals pulled from 43things!
Sure, gapingvoid has got 700+ users in 3 days, I know. But hey, he’s famous, and I don’t see the point of cluttering my already busy Facebook profile with a cartoon. I do read him and generally like his cartoons, and I am in the “friends of the blue monster” group (so to say I like him).
But I prefer reading him in my “normal” aggregator.
I think Facebook apps should rather “inject social objects” (where did I read this definition? sorry I cant recall it or I would appropiately link to you… I swear).
There are of course other similar applications that just pull comics in your profile (like Dilbert, Garfield, etc) but again – I think this is all stuff that YOU are interested in, and thus should just go into your aggregator – so YOU can read it; on the opposite your profile in Facebook should talk about YOU and things YOU are doing, for example. Occasionally they can be YOUR posts or they can even be someone else’s posts that you read and want to share/let other people see (that’s why I pull in my Google Reader’s shared items for example – things I read and want you too to see). If this includes importing other social objects/information from other social networks, like the music you are listening to on last.FM, or the photos you published on Flickr, then it is fine. That’s why I wrote an app that shows the things you want to do, pulled in from 43things.com and one that shows the places you want to visit pulled in from 43places.com. Because I felt those social objects from another network were missing. In fact a user commented “[…] Glad someone finally took a step forward to create this, though 🙂 […]“.
But of course what I wrote about which kind of applications you should or shouldn’t have in your profile, remember that this is just my personal opinion rant, and everybody is free to put whatever stuff he/she likes onto his/her profile, in the end 🙂