What is the Zeitgeist application?

The Zeitgeist application gives you a set of statistics in a bar graph format surrounding your friends. There are 11 categories of statistics that you can look at such as: Sex, Political Views, Relationship status, Top 5 Activities, Top 5 Movies and a few more. The statistics are aggregated, so you don’t have to worry about any of your friends being left out.

Zeitgeist Pros

• Pretty straightforward stats
• Layout is clean and simple.
• Gives users an idea of what their friends are like overall.

Zeitgeist Cons

• Doesn’t show stats on sexual interests or religion due to Facebook Platform privacy restrictions. Yeah, whatever…
• Only 11 categories of statistics.
• An application that you would probably only use at once and remove it.

Overall, this application struck out. Sure… it might be fun to see statistics of your friends relationship status when you are bored, but after you look at these stats chances are you will never look at them again. It reminds me of something I would find in my middle school yearbook and we all know how often we look at those.