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Facebook Adding More Space for Profiles (and Pesky Apps)

by Tim Stevens on January 14, 2008 at 10:57 AM

Extended Facebook Profiles for Extraneous Apps ComingIf you're a Facebook user, chances are you've been inundated with an endless string of application-install requests from friends. Every day there's some new app launched on Facebook, another enhancement for your wall, some new viral zombie or vampire thing, or another way to show your friends what book/music/video game you're into at the moment. They're the modern equivalent of the chain letter.

If you're the type who installs every Facebook app that comes your way, then you're probably running out of room on your profile page . Good news for you, then: Facebook has announced it'll soon be adding "extended" profiles, which should give users a little more online real-estate.

The extended profile will let you participate in all the games and spam and what not with your friends that you like, but will relegate those second-tier apps to another profile that friends will have to make an extra click to see.

It sounds like a good modification for users, but the question is whether the developers of those applications will dig this change. Application developers can make a little money, or at least gain some prestige, if their apps take off, but perhaps not so much now that the fruits of their labor will end up on a secondary page.

Regardless, this is nothing but a good thing for the users from a site that's recently taken some hits for being perhaps a little too advertiser-friendly ...

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