May 2, 2008
Stunning Revelation: Facebook Used for Fun
If you’re one to use Facebook, by now you’ve likely noticed miscellaneous maps and movie quizzes blanketing people’s profiles. To date, there are 23,160 of these applications available, and they’re strewn across 22 categories.
Now comes a nifty little chart that ranks the available applications by type. The chart comes from the number-crunching blog FlowingData, which is run by Nathan Yau, a graduate student at the University of California at Los Angeles. It’s probably little surprise that an overwhelming majority of Facebook applications used in profiles fall into the “Just for Fun” category — reaffirming the site’s status as a prime time-waster. —Hurley Goodall
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I have to pity someone who equates fun with time-wasting.
— Jeff McNeill May 2, 08:35 PM #
well, there’s a difference between real fun and time-wasting fun, to be fair
— 1day May 3, 11:02 AM #
Surely the definition of fun is “time-wasting.” Fun isn’t supposed to serve a purpose!
— Emily May 3, 08:08 PM #
Debating the nature of fun only demonstrates to many how little of it we must enjoy…
— Oh my May 4, 10:47 PM #
“Surely the definition of fun is “time-wasting.” Fun isn’t supposed to serve a purpose!”
That’s a cynical view, Emily. There’s a great deal in life that can be both worthwhile and fun. Just depends upon what you enjoy.
— Rob May 5, 07:21 AM #
I’m confused. I think this chart is for available applications, not applications that people actually use. You should change the wording in this report.
— Katherine May 5, 08:53 AM #
These blogs are fun but time-wasting.
— J. Jones May 5, 09:19 AM #
But isn’t wasting time fun?
— Liz C May 5, 10:34 AM #
Hurley, did you have fun wasting your time writing this blog entry? I had a moderate to minimal amount of fun reading it. Less than a minute wasted in reading, only 440 to waste until I can go home and waste some more in front of the boob tube.
— Nick May 5, 11:48 AM #
Thanks for allowing me to waste some time reading and writing about whether fun must waste time. It’s been fun!
— Eric Peterson c/o The Tequihua Foundation May 5, 01:44 PM #
check out the nifty little chart link an http://adonomics.com/dthen
— Jackie May 5, 02:42 PM #
How to have fun and not waste time – check out the free online games “The ESP Game”: http://www.espgame.org/ and phetch:
http://www.peekaboom.org/phetch/
Brought to us by the guy who invented the captcha.
— Melissa May 6, 12:42 PM #