If you're thinking about creating a Facebook application to promote your website, you should now that most of the popular ones are geared towards having "fun" reports the Flowing Data blog. Of the 23.160 Facebook applications, the most popular were in the categories of "having fun," "gaming" and "sports". "Dating" and "Chat" are also high on the list. If you are developing applicatins in the utility or music categories (money, classifieds and file sharing consequently were the least popular) for promotion on the social network, understand that what most Facebook users are most interested in is simply having fun.

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