Tuesday, October 9, 2007
The Children’s Hour: Facebook Apps Are for Toddlers (There, We Said It)
Fine, call me a grumpy old lady, because I don’t want to pass around a toasty complex carbohydrate globally.
Right now on Facebook, I have been trying to decide what to do near on two weeks or more, after receiving a “Hot Potato” tossed to me by my old boss, Washington Post Co. CEO and Chairman Don Graham.
For those who don’t know what a digital Hot Potato is: It is an widget (also called a third-party app) created by a very nice-looking group of guys at a design outfit called Hungry Machine for the Facebook platform.
“You have to pass it on and watch it travel around the world. 27,012 other people did!”
With all due respect to Don Graham (who is a mentor of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, by the way), Hungry Machine and all world-trotting spuds, I don’t think so.
