Honestly…|an honest take on the world of PR and other things by Cindy Ronzoni

This post to directed toward my 70 million other Facebook brethren — ENOUGH with the applications already. I mean how many times a day can a person get poked before bruising! Really now.

Despite my disdain for them sadly I just learned that over 140 new applications are added a day to the Facebook site. So I guess that they are here to stay. And they never seem to go away. Just when I thought that the Vampire application has seen its better day - bam - we’ve got another new one that will hang around for at least six months. Today alone I’ve been asked to join “Friends to Sell”, “Good Karma”, “Tuner Car,” “Social Me,” etc. etc. etc. And when I decline them, I am always a bit concerned that I am offending my friends. It’s not personal, really - I’ve just had enough.

I am a huge advocate of Facebook. I love it and find it still extremely useful not only for personal reasons, but professional. I like the privacy it affords me with personal messages and the fact that I can keep up with so many friends and colleagues in one place. But I can do without the silly invites and non-sensical groups to join.

I mean how many applications are really necessary?

How about this new one– “Is your girl wife material?” The site asks “Is your girl the one? Take this test to find out?” Thank goodness there are only four active users. Can you imagine — you’re at a party and one of your friends is newly engaged and when you ask him how he knew she was the one - he said that the Facebook application confirmed it!

Or better yet…J-Rock Teef…I’m not making this up. Its description is “Send your friends teef! Who doesn’t love an oral fascination?”

Think I’m making this up? I’m not and you can see for yourself. Just click here Facebook Applications.

Once there you can find out which musical instrument you would be if you wanted to be one in another life. You can take a test to see if you are a killer (good to know I guess-maybe that should be tied into the girl wife app). You can send money to China-that’s good and you can find out which Dead Rock Star You Are.

This all makes me wonder if there is someone who has to approve the applications before they become a reality. Is there a FCC for them? Maybe a Social Media Communications Commissioner position is in order. I think there should be one and heck why I’m at it I’d love to apply. That way I could “kill” more than 2/3 of the entrants and in doing so I would help to make this world less cluttered in one full swoop. I mean some users pages are so full of this crap…that it’s like an over stuffed closet. Call Closet Masters and clean them out.

I have to hand it to the application makers though. They make it so easy for people to share these worthwhile enhancements. It’s much less time consuming to hit “select all” then the one friend who might be amused by it.

Now the only application that I would really want is the one will automatically send the application back to the user with a “Thanks for thinking of me, but no thanks sign.” Now that one I’m interested in.

Got to go now and get ready clean my Facebook closet. Maybe there’s some new quiz I can take or a gift to receive that will make my day even more special. Oh brother!

-CR