I found this in the web and I like you read it:
http://bitporters.net/2007/06/12/facebook-isnt-evil-application-ideas/
Facebook isn’t Evil / Application Ideas
June 12, 2007
Hehe, seriously I DO think you should put some conscious thought into how far you map out your entire life online. However I think if the evil overlords of this planet wanted to know what you like, who your friends are and how hard you partay on a scale of “1 to hellsss yea”… they probably already do (unfortunately I’m #2 on that scale).
I also saw a discussion about how this new addition makes it impossible for new websites to start and how every new innovation will just have to be plugged into Facebook if it is to have any hope of succeeding. Another valid concern but I actually Facebook fixed a big problem for us and they just did all us developers a huge favour! I think over the years people are sick of creating “social profiles” – especially for “1 use” websites. Facebook has momentum and is getting “the 80%” people to sign up. These “80% people” would *never* sign up for your niche website – but they *might* try it now. So be clever, use your FB application to attract these users into your site.
So Please — stop being afraid of this — the API is something to leverage and take advantage of. I think this isn’t a way for the “man” to take advantage of us – this is how we all can take advantage of “the man”. Never before has everyone been connected like this in such a trusted social network. It’s like a peer-to-peer network where we all can exchange ideas and avoid all of the social barriers that exist in real life, it can let us come up with ideas on a massive scale and still trust the end results.. oh man I could go on forever!
Here are some of my Facebook application ideas that illustrate these claims.
A clever developer could build a “Degrees of separation” tool that mapped out how everyone on Facebook knows each other. Would you trust your police chief, bank manager.. even George Bush a bit more if you found out he/she was say 6-7 steps away from you? How about 24? 200?
Taking the above idea further – get ready for this one – if you then had this friend network mapped out… What if the US/Canadian/whomever government built a Facebook application that let people vote for the next leader – and then they printed out a huge frigging diagram of who voted for what, and how you know them. Wouldn’t you trust that a bit more than the current voting system? Hell couldn’t they then mathematically figure out any attempts at spoofing or cheating this? Or even manually?
If Amazon Web Services ever got around to implementing my AMTSense idea – you could have a widget on your Facebook profile that said “Hey, find the street sign in this picture and click on it” or “translate this french into english!” and then you cash in from your networks efforts (who would do the work because they love/respect you of course!)
FogCreek’s Copilot could build a widget that would let mothers ask their sons to fix their computer and setup the terminal session automatically. Geeks could setup shop and fix all the hot girls computers in their college – oh man!
Someone could build an “anonymous salary tool” that would let people opt in and say how much they make a year. Would you make some changes if you found out everyone you know made more than you? People are so afraid to talk about what they make, in the end if just screws themselves over because of a silly social stigma.
Update – already done! — Anonymous advice – A simple app that lets your friends send you notes and recommend things you should do to improve your life that they would never say — again, because of the social barriers around doing that.
And those were just the random ideas I had while cleaning out my cats litterbox! Facebook has just given us a dynamic way to breakdown and redefine how we interact with the people we love and trust. Fearing this is like the early cavemen fearing the discovery of fire – we can put this powerful new tool to much more use than whatever damage it could potentially cause.
