13. Using Facebook Applications

This chapter explores how to find applications and change your Facebook experience through using applications.

Although you might not notice it, you already use Facebook applications. When you upload a video, you use the Video application. When you create an event, you use yet another application. Facebook has developed a set of built-in applications that we, as Facebook users, take for granted, such as Video, Photos, and Groups, to name a few.

People who create applications are constantly developing, improving, and publishing Facebook applications. Their purposes range from serious and utility based to light-hearted entertainment such as the Pillow Fight application. You can browse through these and other applications ...

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