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5 Things I Learned from My Week off Facebook

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1 week ago
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I recently spent a week, yes, a WHOLE week completely off Facebook. And I learned a few things in that week’s time.

  1. I really missed my friends. I know it sounds like a stalker, but I enjoy keeping up with everyone (even if it’s just stalking the News Feed) and interacting with my friends.
  2. I didn’t miss Facebook as much as I thought I might. I know this sounds hypocritical, given that I’m back now, but it wasn’t bad. We actually spent more time together as a family. I read slightly more, and got back into Twitter, which, in some ways, I enjoy more than Facebook.
  3. My phone chirped a whole lot less this week. I actually caught myself once looking to the bottom right corner of my screen, having forgotten that I had deleted the Facebook app already.
  4. Twitter seems to be a better way to connect with “famous” people. As evidence I submit A and B.
  5. I put way to much stock in what other people think about me. Meaning that I allow it to control too much of my self worth. And that’s not cool. It’s something I’m working on.
There you go, 5 things I learned from my week off Facebook.

Church of the New Covenant Sermons

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3 years ago
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Speaking of my church, I also wrote a Facebook App for them to play our most recent sermons.

Check it out at http://apps.facebook.com/cncsermons/.

Erin Murray Music

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3 years ago
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An old friend of mine, Erin Murray, is an amazing singer. Erin is the daughter of one of our former pastor’s. I was playing around writing a Facebook App to play the most recent sermons from our church, and figured she needed an app for her music, which was on MySpace, but not Facebook.

Check it out at http://apps.facebook.com/erinmurray/.

Writing a Facebook App

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3 years ago
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A while ago, I wrote a Facebook App called “Simple Friends” that would display a list of your friends, where you could click their name to view their profile. It was simple enough, but I recently wanted to create a somewhat more sophisticated app.

I won’t bother going through the whole process, because there are great tutorials out there. I just wanted to share one piece of the puzzle that had me stuck for quite some time.

There is a function called setFBML which allows you to set the content’s of different sections of the user’s profile (i.e. get things to show up on their profile page. This was great, because I wanted to make a drop down list of friends to go on the user’s profile. Selecting a friend from the drop down would take you directly to their page.

I kept getting a message on my profile saying that there was no content available, and the content wouldn’t be available until my application created the content. I couldn’t figure this message out for the life of me. After lots of Google searches, I finally found someone who had the solution.

In PHP, the function profile_setFBML() was actually missing a parameter. I tried to update the function with the new parameter, but I couldn’t get that to work. I was finally able to call the function directly, and it looked something like this….

$facebook->api_client->call_method('facebook.profile.setFBML', array(
'uid' => $user_id,
'profile' => $markup,
'profile_main' => $markup));

$user_id is the id of the user who has the application installed. profile specifies what will show up if the user adds the application to their “Boxes” tab. The real kicker was profile_main, which specifies what should be displayed if the user adds your application to their actual profile page.

Check out my app, Lazy Friends, at http://apps.facebook.com/lazyfriends/

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