Complaints abound over the… enthusiastic nature with which some Facebook applications try to get you to sign up. I guess it’s all about the numbers. But as I watched my notifications over the course of a week, I was intrigued by what I saw. At the start of the week, I was being notified about these items:

The items under “Other Applications” aren’t applications that I added to my profile. In fact, I don’t know where they came from at all, or why Live Blog is checked but others aren’t.

Two days later, and Entourage gets the boot, though the Neighborhoods app is lingering and unchecked:

Three more days go by, and I’m suddenly no longer getting Photo notifications:

Now, hang on a second! I actually wanted those (hence the fact that they were checked earlier). As if sensing my dissatisfaction, Facebook offers a replacement by the end of the week:

I suppose Notes are better than Photos anyway.

All I did over the course of the week was take screen shots – I didn’t adjust any settings (nor did I find anywhere that I could adjust them). So what’s with the revolving notifications?