Especially those who like to accumulate friends on Facebook just to see the number of contacts grow even if you have no idea who they are, an application that provides a graph of demographic statistics can be useful. Facebook has become quite powerful and, thanks to groups of friends, it is also possible to manage thousands of contacts, organizing them into lists of friends with different privileges.
So you can stay in closer contact with your loved ones by letting those you do not know remain in the background and have been added only for sport or for self-promotion.
I am thinking mainly of public figures such as politicians, artists, those who have commercial or entertainment activities and those who manage websites.
So those who have hundreds of friends but especially those who have a thousand, two thousand or 5 thousand, may find it useful to understand who these people are from the demographic point of view, that is, what age they are, where they come from and their sex .
This type of statistics and graphs, already visible to the administrators of the Facebook Fan pages, are now also available for the private profiles of people, to make an overall analysis of their friends .
UPDATE: Statistics on friends can no longer be extracted due to the restrictions that Facebook has implemented due to the theft of data of some applications.
As previously written, Docs.com is the site for using Word, Excel and Powerpoint on the internet that was developed by Microsoft and Facebook.
Docs.com is a place where you can easily create new Office documents, directly from the web browser or upload files from your computer to share them with Facebook friends' contacts.
The service is exactly like Office Web Apps, except that it is accessed through the Facebook account and not by the Windows Live ID.
To make the service even more interesting, the Microsoft developers of Docs.com have implemented Social Doc Templates that can be used to obtain the automatic compilation of some documents, based on their Facebook profile.
For the moment there are three social models: one to create a Powerpoint presentation with a photo album of your Facebook profile, one to create a curriculum vitae in Word and, the best one, an Excel sheet with aggregated data of the demographic statistics of your contacts, including graphics.
The Friend Chart application (no longer exists) is an Excel-based chart that is automatically generated by the Docs.com website.
The Docs Friend Chart is completely automatic, you just need to grant the application permission.
The only thing to configure is the choice of whether to publish the graph on the bulletin board and make it readable to everyone, only to friends or to nobody.
After clicking on the " Create " button, you get an Excel sheet visible directly from the web browser, with pie and bar graphs that summarize the percentage of males and females, their age and the city where they live .
The data is extracted from the Facebook profiles of the contacts who made this information public.
The graphs are editable because the Excel sheet is not protected and you can change the numerical values and save the Excel sheet on your computer to open it with Microsoft Office or with OpenOffice.
Personally I believe that for most people this type of statistics and demographic graphs is only a curiosity but, I believe, for those who exploit Facebook also for commercial or image reasons, having an aggregate data of their contacts is more than useful.
To get more statistics on Facebook, you can see how Facebook sees us and which friends are closest and closest
