Facebook’s Visual Bookshelf App
Facebook’s Visual Bookshelf App Brings People Together
Summary
The Visual Bookshelf is a Facebook Verified App. That essentially means that people from Facebook have looked it over and said that it is fine as far as trustworthiness and security is concerned. That is a great thing, because Visual Bookshelf is quickly becoming one of the most popular apps on Facebook.
User Interaction
The two main actions that are involved with Visual Bookshelf are adding books to your own shelf and then browsing through the shelves of other Facebook users.
When you are adding books to your own shelf, all you are doing is filling out the information on a form and then clicking the submit button in order to add that book to your shelf. There is a lot of information contained within your shelf and therefore you can actually take the extra time and actions to browse through your own bookshelf in order to make sure that all of the books are there and catalogued correctly.
Similarly, you can look through the bookshelves of other people. The great thing is that you have maximum choice when it comes to how you would like to browse. For example, you can simply browse through shelves by clicking on profiles and navigating to the shelves, or you can take a look at people that have the same books in their shelf as you. The choice is endless and this is a great way to meet people that share your interests.
User Interface
User interface issues on Visual Bookshelf are non-existent. Essentially, this is an app that runs inside Facebook and steals the Facebook interface to use for its own program as well. The graphics are unique and the way in which the text is spread out across the shelf is also unique. However, the overall design of the graphical user interface still includes Facebook in it to a very large degree.
Utility and Productivity
One of the main purposes of the Facebook service is to allow people to connect with other people. Because this is one of the main purposes, any application that helps that purpose along is definitely one that gets a high utility score. The Visual Bookshelf app is one of these because you can tell a lot about a person based on what they read and more importantly what books they like. You can also judge how well two people will get along based on how similar their tastes actually are. Combine both of these together and you have Facebook’s Virtual Bookshelf.
The productivity on this software is high for the same reason. You can meet people with similar tastes in a fraction of the time it would take you to meet them in the real world. At the end of the day, that is a very important point that is most definitely worth emphasizing.
Rating
Visual Bookshelf is easily one of the best apps on Facebook for the reasons mentioned above. As a way of recognizing that, we have awarded Visual Bookshelf a score of 9.0 out of 10.
