Facebook with their most recent upgrade has enabled instant notifications for Page admins , which is very useful to keep track of comments and respond to reactions from fans of the Page. But while these alerts are fast, the feature is inferior to the free service offered by Hyper Alerts.

We hardly ever spend more than 5 seconds writing a “Happy Birthday” message on someone’s Facebook wall nowadays, but remember when we used to send birthday greetings by mail? And by mail we mean the actual paper stuff that takes at least a day to arrive at its destination. Well, Fidipidi is bringing mail back.

Over the weekend Zynga announced that they plan to donate $100,000 US dollars to help build a school in Haiti. Oh, what’s that? The catch, you say? They want FarmVille players to send 400,000,000 virtual school supplies to their friends and neighbors first. (So if you don’t gift back, you are no longer just a terrible Facebook friend. You are an education-hating swine.)

Farm Rescue was created by Animal Visuals to educate the player on the horrors that hens raised in battery cages face.

Emoticons are inherent to online chat and instant messaging, but did you know you can insert emoticons into your Facebook status updates too? A Facebook application called Status Emoticon enables users to include cute, little, and in some cases even animated emoticons in your status updates or wall posts to a friend.

We addressed Facebook’s severe lack of proper relationship statuses in an earlier post, and with your help even suggested a bunch of new ones. Today we came across a Facebook group created by Eric Stob, a Microsoft employee nota bene, who’s championing “polyamory” as a relationship type.

What we’re gonna do right now is go back… Way back. Back into time. To when you set your first steps on a little site called Facebook. Archivedbook is a website that takes you back to your Facebook past and displays all your Status Updates and Wall posts in chronological order.

More and more soccer fans are rooting for their favorite teams by changing their Facebook profile pictures to their country’s soccer jerseys, and specifically that of their favorite players. Most of these supporters aren’t Photoshop wizards though, but there’s a popular Facebook application called 2010 World Cup Jersey that does the hard work for you.

If you want to get revenge on all those procrastinators spamming your Facebook news feed with meaningless FarmVille updates, here’s your chance. The aptly called FarmVillain is not a game, but a prank application that enables you to share hilarious Farmville-themed feed stories with a dark twist.

Show your allegiance to the Mad Hatter’s army ─46,804 soldiers strong at the time of writing─ and Mad Hatter Yourself! The Alice in Wonderland application allows you to replace Johnny Depp’s face with your own in the movie’s teaser poster and share it with friends on Facebook.

A recently launched Facebook application called What was number one when you were born? allows you to find out just that. Just enter your day of birth (yes ladies, it requires day, month and year) and the application returns the artist and title of the record that was the number 1 single that day.

MirrorMe is an impressive Facebook application that shows you a simulation of what you’ll look like in the future should you continue your current lifestyle.

If you like Grand Theft Auto, you’re gonna be BLOWN TO SLEEP. Mafia Farm, err, Wars!

Want to compete with your Facebook friends in the games they’re playing ? Or are you curious about the applications they’ve added? And when they’ve been using them? Facebook will soon be launching dedicated Applications and Games dashboard pages with all that kind of information, and you can already preview the beta-versions right now!