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There are many Facebook Applications out there created by regular people or companies.  Some of these apps are actually useful and cool and some are just, well, plain old stupid and pointless.  This app, depending on its popularity, could actually be pretty useful and work the way the company, Smarter.com, intended for it to work.  Smarter.com is, in case you didn’t know, a website which shows comparisons between products and helps you make an educated purchase.

The new app, called “What would you buy?“ is a poll in which you ask your friends whether they would buy this product or this product and why.  For example, a person can poll their friends on whether they should buy T-Mobile’s G1 or Apple’s iPhone and hopefully their friends would be nice enough to comment why they chose the cellphone.  Users can add the product of their choosing from any website using a form on the App.  Smarter.com touts that the purchase doesn’t even have to be something big such as a cellphone, it can be something small such as a Halloween costume.

In case you didn’t want to poll all of your friends on what you wanted to buy/wear for Halloween, you can set some privacy restrictions and have the App only poll your close friends or whatever you choose.

Paul Willmes, MeziMedia’s vice president of product management, had this to say about the new App:

“The Smarter.com ‘What would you buy?’ application for Facebook is an exciting new offering for MeziMedia, with the goal being to incorporate many of the social aspects of the offline shopping experience into the online medium, and I think we’ve hit the mark.“

Like I said before, this App could potentially be very useful if many add the App and participate in the polls their friends make. If you want to get this App for your Facebook, then hit the Facebook link below. Let us know what you think of the App and if it’s worth getting.

Read [Facebook] Via [Business Wire]

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