Top 10 Week | Facebook Applications For Social Media Users [List]

Bloggers, websites owners & business owners often use Facebook for networking & promotion purposes. Personally, I’m more into the social aspect of Facebook more than the business networking aspect but, it’s always nice to make new business contacts.

It’s hard to believe that when Facebook first started out, it was only for high school & college students; it has really come a long way.

You may or may not have heard or use some of these applications but I just wanted to highlight the “Top 10″ I think are best for social media users (in no particular order).

1. As Seen On is a great way to display all of the social media sites you’re a member of. Unlike “My Web Profile” (which I have also listed below), it shows the site logo along with your username on the site.

“Add links on your Facebook profile page to profile pages from: MySpace, Orkut, Yahoo360, Flickr, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, delicious, digg, Last.fm, Technorati, Blogger, aNobii, bebo, hi5, piczo, friendster, OkCupid, tumblr, IMDb, Tagged, Virb, Spokeo, Google Reader, Webshots, YouTube, eBay, GreatestJournal, Vox, Listal, TVcom, twofifty, Newsvine, Live Spaces, deviantART, twitter, kuler, cork’d, Ourmedia, Yelp, StumbleUpon, Amazon, BookCrossing, Postcrossing, LibraryThing, AnywhereFM… you get the idea.”

2. Twitter is one of the most talked about social media sites right now, so of course it has to be on this list. The Twitter application is an extremely easy way to update your Twitter status right from your Facebook profile. There’s also the TwitterSync application which seems to be broken right now (at the fault of Twitter). It allows you to “update your Twitter Status via IM, SMS, or Twitter itself, and shortly afterward TwitterSync will make your Facebook Status match your Twitter Status.”

3. Profile.to “creates a short, easy to remember personal web address to take people directly to your Facebook profile, page or group, so you can share the link with other people, post it on forums, show it on your MySpace page or print it on your business cards.” This is really a nice application because Facebook doesn’t give you a regular address like http://facebook.com/socialwebtools. Instead, you get this long address with numbers & stuff that you’ll never remember. This application solves that problem & makes it easier for you to share your Facebook address across the Web.

4. My Bookmarks allows you to share all your bookmarks with your friends; you can even upload your own bookmark images. “Let them know where you are on the internet. Share the web pages you visit with friends.”

5. Web Link is a personal favorite application of mine. What it does is puts a screenshot of any website you choose, right on your Facebook profile. It’s a great way to promote your blog, website, or any other site & gain more traffic. “If you want a second link, try using the MySpace Link app which does the same thing.” This is a very useful application & also easy to use (takes 1 minute to setup).

6. Ping.fm is a site that many are really loving right now, including myself. Now, not only can you access Ping.fm from Profilactic, as well as numerous other convenient ways (email, gtalk, etc), you can also access it from Facebook. “Ping.fm allows you to post messages easily to your favorite social networks like Myspace, Twitter, Blogger, LiveJournal, hi5, Jaiku, Pownce and Tumblr. Adding the Ping.fm Facebook application will enable you to set your status through Ping.fm as well.” Too easy!

7. My Web Profiles is another personal favorite of mine. It serves the same purpose as the “As Seen On” application I listed in #1 but it’s more compact & space efficient. Plus, it supports 181 social media sites! “Easily link to your accounts, of other online services and social networks, from your Facebook profile.” As you can see to the right, all that shows are tiny icons.

8. My LinkedIn Profile allows you to “promote your LinkedIn account with a badge on your Facebook profile.” Basically it’s just a badge linking to your profile, but it’s still pretty useful. The badge helps to make the link stand out among all the text you may have on your Facebook profile. Also, the smaller badges they have for you to choose are very space efficient. I don’t know about you, but the more compact an application widget, the better I like it. To go along with the LinkedIn theme, the LinkedIn Contacts application “allows you to see and share your LinkedIn Contacts” & seems to be very popular as well.

9. StumbleUpon, one of the most addicting ways to spend time online, now forces us to spend even more time on Facebook! “Add StumbleUpon to share your favorites right on your profile. You can also Stumble your friends’ favorites by checking out your ‘What’s New tab’.” Gotta love it though.

10. “mEgo is the first dynamic visual profile on the web. Share your Flickr and Photobucket pictures, YouTube videos, Amazon wishlists and more with your mEgo.” In my opinion, it’s easier if you go to the actual website http://beta.mego.com/site/en_us/login to create your mEgo & then install the mEgo Facebook application & login to your account. mEgo is nice because it’s portable & saves you time when filling out “about me” sections on profiles. Of course, the site will have to allow the embedding of a flash widget. Since Facebook doesn’t allow any type of embedding, this application is the solution to that problem.

Is there something not on this list that you think should be on this list? Feel free to leave it in a comment.

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