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STUDY: Can Facebook Likes Show How Fit Or Obese You Are?

Justin Lafferty — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 18:37:09 +0000

If you tend to like exercise- and activity-based Facebook pages, are you in shape? Conversely, do all of those likes of TV shows paint the picture of someone more obese? That’s what some researchers from Harvard University, Boston Children’s Hospital, and San Diego State University wanted to figure out. They took geographic data of Facebook likes, comparing them to obesity levels, finding that areas where more people liked TV shows on Facebook also tended to be areas with higher obesity rates.

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Workout App Endomondo Strengthens Its Ties With Facebook

Justin Lafferty — Wed, 22 May 2013 15:24:33 +0000

Working out is becoming a more social experience, with Facebook friends offering support on a tough hill or the homestretch. Endomondo knows this, as the application recently deepened its Facebook integration to include the ability to tag friends, as well as to post photos and status updates once the workout is done.

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Facebook Announces Global Rollout Of Sections On Timeline, Best Practices For App Developers

David Cohen — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:55:12 +0000

Facebook announced Tuesday that the application modules it introduced for Timeline in March have now been rolled out to all users, encouraging app developers in a post on its developer blog to incorporate these sections into their apps.

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Facebook Adds Open Graph Actions Such As Run, Quote, Want To Watch

Justin Lafferty — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:03:22 +0000

Facebook has been experimenting with ways that allow users to be more expressive — such as structured status updates and more info in the “about” section. The social network Friday announced new open graph actions that let people tell a little more about what they’ve done through Facebook-connected applications.

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Facebook’s Fitness Apps Keep Users Moving With The Help Of Open Graph

Justin Lafferty — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:13:34 +0000

The joy of working out with Facebook-connected applications is that even if users are not jogging or cycling with someone in person, they can have the support of their friends list in their pockets. As Steve Kusmer, CEO of Abvio (developers of Runmeter, 5K Runmeter, Cyclemeter, and Walkmeter) points out, users are much more likely to not only keep using fitness apps, but also to stay on track with their exercise goals, if they connect with Facebook.

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RunKeeper Leads The Pack With Facebook’s Open Graph

Justin Lafferty — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:56:30 +0000

Many Facebook applications help users get into shape or keep steady fitness regimens. Not all of them have become as wildly popular as RunKeeper, which was in the spotlight Tuesday on Facebook’s developers blog. RunKeeper found that those who connected their Facebook accounts to the app were much more active in real-life.

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Keep Your New Year’s Resolution With The Help Of Facebook Apps

Justin Lafferty — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:27:05 +0000

What’s the biggest resolution everyone makes on Jan. 1? Lose weight and be healthier. There are several Facebook applications that can help with this goal and other popular New Year’s resolutions, such as traveling, finding a new job, and reading more.

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Facebook’s Open Graph Working Out Nicely For Fitness Apps

Justin Lafferty — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:51:11 +0000

Facebook users love announcing workout results. Luckily, they’ve got a variety of ways to do so. The site’s developers blog Wednesday highlighted four such applications that have taken advantage of Facebook’s Open Graph to find success on the social network. With these apps, users can post a map of their run, gain a personal trainer in their pocket, count calories burned and share successes.

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INFOGRAPHIC: Facebook Helps Push Workout App Endomondo Past 10M Downloads

David Cohen — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:21:58 +0000

Sports and fitness mobile application Endomondo has seen traffic like the gym on Jan. 2, reaching the 10 million-download mark and saying that its users share 50,000 workouts daily on Facebook.

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Facebook Apps Help Users Keep New Year’s Resolutions

David Cohen — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:07:41 +0000

Two of the most common New Year’s resolutions, losing weight and and quitting smoking, are more easily kept through using Facebook applications that tap into positive peer pressure.

However, a number of apps in the category with decent monthly user totals aren’t available, making us wonder whether these tools are undergoing upgrades to leverage Facebook’s improved open graph as announced this September.

On the diet and exercise front, MyFitnessPal, with 9,000 monthly users, did not offer a description on its page, and the app was misconfigured.

MyDiet, with 600 monthly users, provided a lengthy description, but trying to load the app resulted in an error message.

Even more surprising, industry kingpin Weight Watchers, with 20,000 monthly users, claimed to have an app, but clicking on the button brings users to the company’s website.

Turning to smoking, Livestrong MyQuit Coach: Dare to Quit Smoking, with 400 monthly users, resulted in the same lack of content or app as MyFitnessPal.

As for apps that did actually work, in the diet and exercise category:

LilySlim Weight Loss Tickers, with 500 monthly users, uses hand-drawn graphics to display users’ achievements in weight loss, exercise, and diet.

Fit-ify! Exercise Tracker allows users to track running, cycling, swimming, aerobics, and other exercise activities, giving out awards for reaching milestones. Unfortunately, the app does not yet support secure browsing (via a https://).
Perhaps the most interesting app we found, DietVille — which is not from Zynga, but resembles the Facebook game giant’s offerings, such as FarmVille and CityVille — brings a social gaming aspect to the process, pushing users within game play to lose weight and meet their goals.

And to aid Facebook users in the quest to quit smoking, there’s:

QuitNow, with 2,000 monthly users, actually directs users to an app for iPhone and Android devices that tracks information such as day of a user’s last cigarette, days without smoking, cigarettes not smoked, money saved, time saved, and the ability to share results via Facebook and Twitter.
QuitometeR, which boasts 1,000 monthly users, describes itself as “a community of ex-smokers and smokers who want to quit smoking,” and it displays time since quitting and money saved on users’ Facebook profiles.

Stop Smoking Counter, with just 200 monthly users thus far, provides similar statistics to QuitNow and QuitometeR, but unfortunately, it also does not yet support secure browsing (via an address beginning with https://).

Readers: Are you using any Facebook apps to help yourselves lose weight, quit smoking or meet other goals?

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Do Facebook Diets Really Work? One Doctor Says No

Julie D. Andrews — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:43:24 +0000

While some have reported amazing success in sharing their weight-loss strategies via Facebook dieting applications, one doctor warns that this very public approach to self-improvement could backfire.
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6 Ways Facebook Can Speed Up Your Weight Loss

Ruth Manuel-Logan — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:43:55 +0000

Do you need to skim off a muffin top or oversized badonkadonk? Facebook can actually help you lose weight faster!
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Facebook Boosts Fitness Through Positive Social Pressure

Jackie Cohen — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:56:26 +0000

Fitness gurus often recommend finding a workout partner to stay motivated, and now we’ve unearthed a study showing how Facebook can supply that same type of positive peer pressure.
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