If you see something show up in your Facebook FunWall that is inappropriate with a message that says “press forward to see what happens” - DO NOT PRESS FORWARD.  This is a trick to get you to forward the inappropriate image/message to all your friends (who are all checked off, without you checking them off yourself)

Unfortunately I was tricked, just as I know the person who sent it to me was tricked.  It’s really obnoxious and by the time you realize what has happened, you’ve already forwarded it on to all these people.

So I’m trying to warn others ahead of time.

I googled a little bit about this and it’s being referred to by some as “slide spam.”

If you have a Facebook profile and you use Google Reader and you are a fan of the Google Reader share feature - then you may want to check out the Feedheads application. It’s a way to post those Google Reader shared links in your Facebook profile.

As if you didn’t have enough Facebook nonsense there already … (i.e. - “my werewolf just bit your vampire”)

Note: this Feedheads application can take over your Facebook mini-feeds if you don’t fix the settings on it.

There have been a lot of articles about Facebook in the news lately.

Some writers are suggesting that Facebook will be (or already is) the next big thing in the Internet world. As everyone knows, Google purchased YouTube for a massive mountain of cash. It seems likely that Facebook is attaining a similar level of attention and speculative value due to its popularity.

Of course that kind of popularity and value attracts problems as well as opportunities. The creator(s) of Facebook are currently being sued by some fellow Harvard students who claim their ideas were stolen.

There are also those associated with other prominent sites and applications that want to build a relationship with Facebook. WordPress has released some kind of plugin that allows users to connect their WordPress blogs with Facebook - though the plugin only works for WordPress.com users. This leaves me wondering if a way will be developed for other WordPress users (such as myself).

Because Facebook is getting so much attention, I registered and checked around a little. One of the interesting applications was that Facebook was able to use my Gmail contact list to look for people I already know who have Facebook accounts.

I also found that there’s a “Bloggernacle” category that’s been created within Facebook and so it was fairly easy to find and connect with the LDS bloggers who have signed themselves up as part of that group.

Many of the Facebook features remind me of LinkedIn - it seems to be a very convenient and easy way to find people you’ve known from the past - whether they attended the same high school or university, worked at the same business, lived in the same place, shared the same interest, etc. Also, if you know someone and you share the same friends, it becomes easy to add those shared contacts/friends to your own list.

I wonder though if this is the kind of site where you register, play around a bit, and then not bother going back. Or perhaps it is the kind of site that invites only occasional and casual interaction - unlike email or other applications that a person will use daily.

Note: Matt Mullenweg wrote “I’m really enjoying Pownce” so I signed up for an invite to give it a try.  Now I have six more invites I can offer to others.  So if you want to try it out, let me know in the comments or via email.  Honestly, it just strikes me as one more social networking program.