I was unimpressed to find that Scrabulous on Facebook has been taken away for US and Canadian users. It was even in my BBC News email, which only gives the three top stories in each category. There is a Scrabble application on there, but there are separate ones for North America and the rest of the world. Although I don't know what's to stop anyone from installing both, I haven't tried.

However, it turns out this isn't a problem because it turns out Scrabulous has the same application on their website that not only works all over the world but also emails you when it's your move. Which is a big improvement. So anyone that wants to play with me over there, use my gmail address and I'm up for a game. Let's see if this version gives me consonants even when I'm winning.

Recently I found out what the use of Facebook was - it's the status changes that tell you what people are up to. Like blog posts, but in one sentence. The trouble is, when I go to the 'home' page I can see some status updates but they're buried in among the friend adding and application adding that goes on constantly.

However, it turns out there's an RSS Feed that just gives you your friends' status updates. So now I have that instead of the notifications RSS Feed - because that just told me when someone else had started a Scrabulous game with me, or, really unhelpfully, when I'd started a game with someone else (do they think I didn't notice I did that?).

So what Facebook really need to do now is sort themselves out with RSS Feeds or something to tell you when there are new posts in your groups - just like every other forum out there!