Oregon Train, one of my favorite computer games of all time, is now available as a Facebook application.  If you are in your late twenties or early thirties, I bet that you feel the same way that I do about Oregon Trail.  With the original game you have to buy a Conestoga wagon and enough supplies to make a journey from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean.  Along the way you have to hunt for food, ford rivers and survive the trek.  Now this wonderful game is being introduced to online social networking as a Facebook application.

Unlike the original Oregon Trail, the Oregon Trail Facebook application requires you to get your Facebook friends to join you on this journey.  This is how the Oregon Trail Facebook Application incorporates Facebook’s social networking elements.  Maybe I can play with some of the same people that I used to play with when I was in junior high school.  That would be cool.

So see you on the trail.  Go download the Facebook application.

Facebook has just released its Facebook applications clean up tool.  This clean up tool is a much needed improvement to any Facebook user’s profile.  This tool allows you to move your Facebook applications from your main profile page to an extended portion of your profile.  This will allow you to keep your main Facebook profile page decluttered.

This Facebook Extended Profile page will allow Facebook to keep its unique clean appearance.  That is why I liked Facebook.  The user interface was very clean and tidy.  However, as more and more developers release Facebook applications this clean profile page has become cluttered.  Now you can install Facebook applications without worrying that you won’t be able to find the really important stuff on your Facebook profile page.