FluxWord Facebook Application

What is the FluxWord Facebook Application?

FluxWord is an application that allows you to create stories and then share them with your friends and/or the world. The application puts a box on your profile page that displays your stories. Readers can then click on one of your stories, read it, and critique it. Readers can post feedback and comments on each of your story’s paragraphs. FluxWord is also a collaborative writing tool. You can begin a story and then friends can add to it, making a “neverending story.”

FluxWord Pros

• FluxWord is a refreshingly unique idea for a Facebook Application. It is both useful and fun. Many writers seek feedback for their work, but are perhaps too shy to ask. The FluxWord forum could make criticism easier to take for the writer, and make giving an honest assessment easier for the reader.

• The “neverending story” feature is a fun one. You can begin a story and then set a word count limit for your friends to add to it. When there are multiple contributors in a story you can click a highlight button which will show you who wrote what in different colors.

• You can easily rate friends’ stories with the 5 star ranking system.

• You can read stories submitted by writers from around the world.

• The creator of FluxWord has a forum for suggestions and problems and seems genuinely interested in feedback and improving the application.

FluxWord Cons:

• The design is rather plain and not that appealing to the eye.

• When you write a story it should show up in the news feed, announcing that your new story has been posted. It doesn’t, although if you rate a story or add to a story it does show up in the news feed. I think the creator is trying to fix this though.

• It seems that after you submit a story you can only delete it completely, but you can’t just edit it. But if the application is designed to have people critique stories, it would be logical to allow users to be able to go back in and tweak it in line with the feedback.

• There are no formatting buttons (bold, italics, ect) to use when you are submitting your story.

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