If you’re an avid Facebook user and you like to keep up on the latest news headlines, share thoughts and ideas about your favourite topics, and improve your knowledge on just about every discipline, these Facebook applications may be just what you’ve been looking for.
Check them out. Many of them have been rated, on a scale of 5, by current
Facebook
users.
Reading:
Visual Bookshelf
Catalog your books and reading list. See what your Friends are reading, write reviews, and recommend books. Meet new People who are Reading your Favorite Book!
Rating: 3.5
Writing and Vocabulary:
Web Story 2.0
Web Story 2.0 is the place to exercise your wit and creativity or just to read some really entertaining stories. You can read your friends’ stories or stories written by the general public. You can vote on each story you read and you can choose to track your favorite writers.
No rating
Dictionary.com: Word of the Day
Dictionary’s Word of the Day application is based on Dictionary’s popular Word of the Day e-mail. Simply click on the application and today’s word and meaning will display.
Rating: 5.0
Languages:
Language Exchange
Find language exchange partners, peers and volunteers teaching more than 70 languages. Learn English, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, etc… Your language exchange partners will be managed from your profile. You will be kept updated with the good practices developed by other members of the global exchange community on how to use text, audio or video to overcome the distance.
Rating: 4.6
Math:
Math Challenge
Challenge your friends and other users in your network to a fast paced game of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division!
Compete against your friends and other people in your Facebook networks based on time and correctness. Offers three levels of difficulty.
No rating
News:
News Headlines
Browse news from the world’s top providers, including BBC, CNN, ABC, Fox, Sky, Reuters, c-net, Yahoo, etc.. Add news to your profile, bookmark stories and show them in your profile, share news with friends and see what’s popular with other facebook users.
No Rating
Medical News
Get Feeds from your choice of many medical resources to get information you need on health and medicine topics. The latest news will be shown in your profile. Choose from Cancers, HIV, Abortion, Drug/Alcohol, Mental Illnesses, Flu, Eating Disorders, and many more…
Rating: 4 out of 5
Wired Headlines
Wired Headlines provides you with up-to-date technology-related news and its impact on business, entertainment, politics, culture, science, and art. Choose from over 60 categories to have delivered to you everyday.
No Rating
Politics:
My Politics
MyPolitics allows you to uncover your political views and how those views compare to political figures. You can also compare your views with the views of your Facebook friends.
By answering twelve selected questions, the software plots your views on a Nolan chart that illustrates your position on the left/right spectrum as well as a libertarian/authoritarian spectrum. You are placed into one of 5 categories - Liberal, Totalitarian, Centrist, Conservative or Libertarian. You can see how you compare to political figures from the present day & the past - Gandhi, Stalin, JFK, Bill Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, Barack Obama, the list goes on; and to all your friends who have also taken the test.
Environment:
Zerofootprint Calculator
The Zerofootprint Calculator helps you measure your environmental impact. This application takes just one-minute to use and will calculate how many tonnes of carbon dioxide you produce through driving, travel, diet, and your home.
Opinion:
iThink
Express your deepest thoughts, share comments and opinions, and meet fascinating people. With iThink, you can use a search engine to explore a topic of your choice, no matter how serious or trivial the subject matter may be. You can also add your own opinion on any subject matter. You can keep track of your added opinions and follow your favorite opinionated people. You can choose to comment or dispute someone’s opinion on the subject matter.
Rating: 4.6
Brain Power:
Brain Game
Here you will find some of the best brainteaser and games around.
Rating: 5.0
How-To:
WikiHow: How to of the Day
Challenge yourself to learn something new every day. Dare yourself to actually try everything you learn. Add wikiHow’s entertaining and educational “How to of the Day” to your profile. You never know what you will learn next.
No Rating
Photography/Art:
National Geographic Photo of the Day
Get a stunning new image every day –unforgettable photos of landscapes, animals, cultures, and more as only National Geographic photographers can capture them.
Rating; 2.0
Art
Art lets you choose from thousands of works of art to put on your profile. From Monet to Warhol- you can share them all with your friends, create a personal gallery or slideshow, and leave notes and play fun games with the entire art community!
Rating: 3.7
March 21st, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Very informative. I am going to go sign up for facebook right now.
March 21st, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Thanks for pointing these out..I must look at them more often
March 21st, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Hi…I have no idea what you talked about, but I like you, so therefore, this was very good! Sorry, but I am an older Merikan, so I dunno what this is. Lol.
June 1st, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Excellent. Thank you.
November 14th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Great article!