Life with Facebook apps
Are you still using Facebook just for updating your status and likes and sending messages to your friends? You are so out of date! After
eight years since launched, Facebook is no longer just the way we socialize,
but the way we live instead.
Mark Zuckerberg and his team did a great
job to make sure Facebook is there whenever the users need. With mobile
devices, users can access Facebook any time from any places. With numerous
Facebook apps, one can nearly do everything without leaving Facebook.
Facebook apps are covering many fields of life, including games, entertainment, lifestyle, news, photos & video, sports, and travel. Users can use most apps both on Web and mobile, as easily as we use mobile apps. Above all, after knowing about these apps, you will find they can help with different aspects of your life.
For Personal Life
Facebook is known as a time waster of spare time, which largely results from its apps. The most important one is game. John Pleasants said, in 2010, 40% of total usage time on Facebook is spent on social games. Social games allow users having fun in virtual world, but with real social interactions.
Another big thing is shopping on Facebook. Amazon, Wanelo, and Groupon are all available on Facebook's app center. Marketplace is a great example of shopping apps, where you can sell, buy, rent, and ask for anything you want within your Facebook community. What's more, in May 2010, the Walt Disney Company released a app called "Disney Tickets Together", providing a new way of selling tickets and even other things.
Another big thing is shopping on Facebook. Amazon, Wanelo, and Groupon are all available on Facebook's app center. Marketplace is a great example of shopping apps, where you can sell, buy, rent, and ask for anything you want within your Facebook community. What's more, in May 2010, the Walt Disney Company released a app called "Disney Tickets Together", providing a new way of selling tickets and even other things.
Facabook apps also appear in some small aspects of life, for example, one's birthday. Birthday Reminder helps users to send birthday messages on friends' birthday, whereas Say Thankyou helps to release automatically response to friends who have said "Happy birthday" to you. What's more, you can get this kind of thoughtful help when planing a trip (TripAdvisor), losing weight (MapMyRUN), and wondering who is still your friends (Who Deleted Me).
For businesses
Facebook has definitely become a destination for businesses to build up brands, communicate with customers, engage employees and even accomplish more. Many companies create Facebook apps for the sake of driving customers to their own sites as well as linking customers' Facebook accounts to the websites. It benefits businesses for personalization and customers for single sign-on.
For businesses
Facebook has definitely become a destination for businesses to build up brands, communicate with customers, engage employees and even accomplish more. Many companies create Facebook apps for the sake of driving customers to their own sites as well as linking customers' Facebook accounts to the websites. It benefits businesses for personalization and customers for single sign-on.
Many Facebook apps are helpful for branding and marketing, especially for some small businesses. Sweepstakes and contests are promotion tools for organizing promotional events supported by word of mouth. SurveyMonkey on Facebook are used for easy research.
For NPOs
Facebook also contributes to promote the charity and raise social responsibility. Many NPOs have finding a free way to speak them out and make broader audience to care the poor, the young, animals and others. For instance, Chase Community Giving gives an good example for charity, maybe for marketing as well.
For Future
There are many more apps than what are listed above. More than spending time with friends on Facebook, we can do more with Facebook apps. According to Josh Constine's report, now there's 160 million Americans, who spend 6.5 hours per month on Facebook Website. In the future, as our mobiles and Facebook apps developed, we could help but spending longer on Facebook. Maybe one day, Facebook will become the way we speak, shop, learn, work and have fun. At that time, is it we that take advantages of Facebook, or Facebook that control us?
For NPOs
Facebook also contributes to promote the charity and raise social responsibility. Many NPOs have finding a free way to speak them out and make broader audience to care the poor, the young, animals and others. For instance, Chase Community Giving gives an good example for charity, maybe for marketing as well.
For Future
There are many more apps than what are listed above. More than spending time with friends on Facebook, we can do more with Facebook apps. According to Josh Constine's report, now there's 160 million Americans, who spend 6.5 hours per month on Facebook Website. In the future, as our mobiles and Facebook apps developed, we could help but spending longer on Facebook. Maybe one day, Facebook will become the way we speak, shop, learn, work and have fun. At that time, is it we that take advantages of Facebook, or Facebook that control us?
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