Friendly Search Facebook Application

What is the “Friendly Search” Facebook Application?

Friendly Search is a new way to find, sort, and filter your Facebook friends. Instead of having to scroll through everyone to find the person you are looking for, Friendly Search brings up the thumbnail pictures of each of your friends’ profile pictures. From here you can filter the pictures by name, networks, country, and sex. You can view the pictures as small with no names, a little bigger with names, or even bigger with name, network, and hometown. When you click on a picture it brings up a “mini-profile” of the person with the option of going to their complete profile.

Friendly Search Pros:

• A simple, very clean, very cool interface. Quite an appealing design.

• Easy to use. Makes it easier to find friends, especially for people who have many of them.

• When you bring up Friendly Search it starts out by showing all of your friends, and you can filter them from there. This is an improvement over Facebook which if you just click on the general “Friends” button only brings up those in the “Recently Updated” category first.

• Watching the pictures get filtered and sorted is really strangely fun. I recommend giving it a try.

Friendly Search Cons:

• Admittedly, using the regular old Facebook way to find friends is not that hard. So this is fun, but not completely necessary.

• The network filter drop down box lists all the various networks your friends belong to. However the list was longer than the screen, and I couldn’t figure out how to scroll past the last entry on the bottom of the screen.