Level2wo

Seems like Facebook is about to crack the whip. When it comes to the applications that make it through to see the light of day, anyway. At a recent programmer’s conference, Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg spoke to a group of programmers about the influence his 4 1/2 year old company has built up, as well as what their role might (or might not) be at Facebook in the future.

And no suprise here, the programmers listened. Turns out (and it’s not a suprise to anyone reading this, I’m sure), Facebook can make an application company. Literally. Some $200 Million in Venture Capital has poured into companies that have been building applications for the social networking site, not to mention the $240 Million Microsoft through at Facebook for a piece of the action. With the deluge of applications on the site, some issues have arisen.

Personally, I’ve sent email to contacts I did not want to send email to. A few careless clicks and away went communication to people I did not intend to send email to. Apparently, I’m not the only one. One of the issues Zuckerberg and Facebook will be trying to tackle is that of applications either maliciously or unfortunately performing actions detrimental to users–either exposing security holes, or anything that would damage user experience. And seems Facebook will now be rating, endorsing, and banning applications moving forward. In my opinion, that’s a great move.

Personally, I don’t particularly want to be invited to slay anyone or throw pie at any of my contacts. But then again, that application is probably not for my age group anyway.

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