Spread News, Rumors, and Gossip with Truemors
November 4, 2007
The Truemors For Facebook application allows Facebook users to share news, rumors, and gossip about what is happening in the world with their friends. While similar to its parent site, which enables users to “tell the world” about worldly happenings, Truemors For Facebook is instead intended for users to tell others located within their social graph.
Understanding Truemors is fairly intuitive. When first viewing the Truemors application, the user is presented with a form for spreading news and rumors to their friends, as can be seen in the image on the right. Users simply type in a brief description of the news or rumor they intend to spread, decide whether the news should be available for viewing by all friends, specific friends, or all Facebook users, and click the “Spread” button. There is also the option of including an image related to the story as well as choosing a friend whom the news is targeted towards.
Below the Truemor submission form is a list of Truemors already spread by others. By default, the list is sorted by the most recent submission of friends and other Facebook users who decided to share their stories with everyone. However, as demonstrated below, this list can also be sorted by popularity (”Greatest” Truemors) and author (”Mine” and “Friend’s” Truemors).
Within each submitted topic’s title are checkboxes labeled “Interesting” and “Dump”. Clicking either option helps Truemors to sort the most popular submissions such that they are displayed most prominently.
Due to the intention of Truemors For Facebook to provide greater visibility to Truemors.com, the application provides a list of various Truemors listed on its parent site in addition to those created by Facebook users. The stories listed here are merely links to Truemors.com, used to promote the site by directly sending it Facebook traffic.
While the basis of Truemors for Facebook is an interesting, well thought-out concept, there are several ways in which the application could be improved. One suggestion for improvement is to include a simple keyword search for users to locate topics that fall within their interests.
Another suggestion is to include a means by which users can randomly stumble through submitted Truemors. Currently, the only way to find Truemors is through the “Latest” or “Greatest” lists. This, on the other hand, would offer users a greater incentive to navigate the application’s canvas pages. As a result, users might find inspiration for submitting new Truemors that they otherwise would not have considered submitting.
In all, Truemors For Facebook and its parent site Truemors are worth a look. Both provide an interesting method for finding news while offering the opportunity to spread the word out about whatever you desire.
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