When I 1st joined facebook, one of my friends had an application that displays what music he is listening to. I actually thought this was a pretty cool facebook app. That is, I thought it was a cool app until I got my friends list up to about 20-25. Then the CD app became one of the prime delivery mechanisms responsible for TMI (Too Much Information). I like the concept of the app. I like to see what others might be listening too and maybe check out a new artist. The question is “How can one balance the utility of an application without delivering such a volume that you consider moving the friend to your ignore list?”
Here is the application link:
http://stanford.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2419261583
It has over 4,600 active users.
My feature enhancement suggestion would be this:
Have the feature track ‘listened to CDs’ but not post every CD played. Instead, allow the owner to throttle ratio of CDs displayed to 1/3 or 1/4 or 1/5 (as an example). Track ‘CDs listened to’ to favor posting a new CD never played. Allow post recipients to choose to see the entire list or CD’s your friend played that day by clicking on the wall post.
I would then likely click on the friends CD post to see what he or she has been playing.
The choice I seem to have now is to either put the friend in the ignore list or to block the CD application.
