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misterboh

1-21-2008 11:47 PM

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<P>THIRD-PARTY applications are supposedly the secret to <A 
title="More articles about Facebook." 
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/facebook_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Facebook</A>’s 
success. </p> <P>So far, though, the applications fall mainly into two categories: the silly 
and the annoying (and sometimes, both). Users can throw virtual sheep at each 
other or take part in zombie attacks on their friends. Recently, many users 
received a message entreating them to “click ‘forward’ to see what happens.” 
After clicking, users discovered that nothing happened except that they had 
annoyed their friends with a pointless message. </p> <P>Many Facebook applications are “for toddlers,”<A 
href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071009/the-childrens-hour-facebook-apps-are-for-toddlers-there-we-said-it/">writes</A> 
Kara Swisher, the technology journalist and blogger for All Things Digital. The 
“kazillion users of these widgets are pretty much just acting like little 
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