iCare Facebook Application

What is the iCare Facebook Application?

iCare lets you share with your Facebook friends what issues you are passionate about. The application is easy to use. You can select from a list of topics to add to your profile. Topics range from Ron Paul to animal rights. iCare lets you add a topic if your cause isn’t listed. You can click on each topic to see which other people share your beliefs. iCare also creates a tag cloud in the application page to show which topics are the most popular. Your topics show up on the left sidebar.

iCare Pros

• Easy way to see who shares your favorite causes
• Allows you to add your own causes
• Great way to raise awareness for a cause
• Leverages social network by seeing who shares the same causes

iCare Cons

• As of this writing, I had problems with my topics showing up on my profile. I added a few topics, but they don’t appear on my profile page or in the app. Perhaps there’s a delay.
• Doesn’t Facebook already do something like this? You can click on Facebook users’ interests and bring up people who share that same interest. Thus, if someone has save Darfur under interests, you can click on it and bring a list of others who have that interest. I guess the difference here is that makes more uniform topics.