Facebook Watcher

According to Facebook blog, they’ve released a decent tool called Lexicon. It is a tool which help to track the buzz surrounding different words or phrases posted on Facebook Walls over a period of time. However, Facebook respect the privacy of its users, no personal information have been collected in the process of pulling all these data for Lexicon purposes.

Lexicon has a Web-friendly interface, with back-end Flash Player to display the data compared. An user can compare up to five different words or two-word phrases and see how many people talked about that term each day, or over seven months. I’ve played around it to compare the words Friendship and Networking, as shown in the picture below. One limitation is you’ll never know what is the latest word, phrase that most frequently appeared across profiles, groups and event Walls every day, in spite of it rates high on my wish list at this moment. Again, this is a Facebook’s privacy issue.