DISQUS

I think aps have killed facebook... personally I despise them and have for a long time.

I think a MAJORITY of people think aps take away more from FB than they add... but because a lot of these people will add one or two aps each, but all different ones, it creates an effect where it makes it easier for the somewhat high percentage of people who LOVE applications to add a whole pile.

Personally I'm a purist and don't have any aps on my profile. I realise that FB will probably never take them away even though I would love it. I'd love see them make them more managable, namely making 3 changes:

1) Including applications in the preference metres section. That way if you don't want to hear about them, you can put that metre down to the very bottom. They are SORT OF doing this with the ability to "x" out items you don't like on your news page... but they can do more.

2) I can't stress this one enough... all applications should be BELOW the wall!!! It's a common beef with people that they have to scan 5 miles to see someone's wall after they sort through all the aps. It's ridiculous.

3) There should be a "reject all" button so you don't have to individually reject all application requests.

I'd say there's a growing resentment against applications on facebook, and apps are probably the reason the buzz is dying down a bit. People are probably spending more time on facebook than they were pre-applications, but they are spending LESS time doing things that cause them to interact with other people. There's less wall-writing, less note writing, less photo posting, photo tagging, etc...