my question re. facebook is.. ‘what’s the big fuss about’??… it seems everyone’s on the facebook bandwagon these days, and I use facebook a lot myself… but from a developers perspective, I don’t really see the attraction… Is there enormous advertising revenues to be gleaned from facebook apps??.. Is the whole thrust right now towards developing mobile apps for facebook??… I can see how this would benefit mobile companies, but not your average developer…

The development language seems very limited in scope, and the apps appear clunky, and difficult to customize… and most of the ones that seem to perform well right now are pretty simple, quite short lived, and are best designed with teenage girls in mind (most developers probably wouldn’t have a problem with a user-centric approach in this case)… I don’t see any advertising on these apps that could benefit the developer, but then, i might have missed something…

From my perspective, the most successful apps are simply the most eye-catching… Personally, the only apps that I add are the ones that I see on my friend’s profiles and think ‘ohh, that one looks like fun’ - and I think the same applies to everyone…. I don’t believe it achieves anything to have to invite many of your friends to use an app in order to get your ‘results’, that bit should be optional…

I’m going to wrap this up by saying that I think a good facebook developer needs a good sense of humour, and an ability to make people laugh (at whatever level - sometimes base) or to catch their eye…

feel free to agree or disagree… Would love to get your (informed) opinion on this… maybe i’m missing the whole point of this particular blog (if that’s the case feel free to let me know)