The economy’s plunge, famine, war – they’ve all got to stop. Facebook’s more immediate concern is its ongoing MySpace-ification, though, and so the company plans to introduce a tool that will help users clean up their profiles.
Yes, users who have zombies throwing sheep at martini-sipping vampires will now be able to straighten the mess up without deleting everything. On the Facebook Developers Blog, Julie Zhuo explains, “Similar to how your computer’s desktop will remind you to get rid of unused icons, this tool will give users the option to move extra profile boxes to an ‘extended portion’ of their profile. . . . At the bottom of the profile will then be a link to ‘Show Extended Profile.'”
Zhuo continues, “We believe this change will allow users to interact with all of their applications in a more meaningful way. In addition to allowing the profile page to load faster, this means users will have an easy way to publicly acknowledge their favorite applications.” She (and/or whoever else worked on the project) seems to have killed (SuperPoked?) several birds with one stone.
In fact, the only reason that a user might not like this development is if he (or she) is too lazy to take advantage of it; friends could become annoyed if large amounts of bright or distracting things persist.
Now, Beacon’s under control, the site’s MySpace-ification has been slowed . . . on to that whole global warming thing.
