Socialistics

There’s been a lot of buzz around Facebook lately, so I’ve been getting the dust off my account there and using it more these days to see what it’s all about.

Facebook is very well put together, from an interface point of view – it’s consistent and predictable. The one thing I really dislike about it though is that it’s a completely closed network. Maybe back when it was essentially a college student network, blocking outside access was a good idea. Doing that now just seems a bit backwards, a bit AOL-ish, as some have said. Others disagree.

Anyways, one of the cool things about Facebook is that you install little applications for your account. I found out about one that I thought was particularly cool. It’s called Socialistics and lets you look at stats associated with your friends within the system, such as where they were born, their age, where they live now, etc.

Not surprisingly, Socialistics is not too unlike another app that I spend a lot of time using and working on.