Nice little post over at The Equity Kicker (I am a sucker for visuals).

Now that the novelty has worn off and we are getting to grips with what we actually want to use Facebook apps for things are changing. Firstly, most people I know are already ignoring most of the application invitations they receive, and secondly they are starting to be careful about not spamming their friends with application invites they might not welcome. This is a natural progression from initial interest to looking for real value. It happened before with viral emails - to start with we thought they were hilarious and sent them to all our friends, but now we are a bit bored with them and only forward on the ones that are really funny.

By this analogy the question with Facebook apps the question is whether there are any really useful ones, i.e. equivalents to the really funny virals that we still send on to our friends. If there are then people will use them and tell their friends about them.

In this instance, we are discussing facebook, but the discussion on applications will soon cover other large social graphs.

Now, I am certain that facebook is becoming an important place for companies to create proprietary in-house social applications for employee management and internal affairs. I am very excited to start seeing the public valuable social apps coming into these platforms- Facebook, Myspace, Google begin to show up as the general public gets tired of zombie bites and superpokes.