Note:  Writers — feel free to articalize this up

I am a social person.  I'm not a blogger.  I usually don't have anything very "deep" to say.  But, I do like to say things.  I like to update my facebook status.  I like to let people know what's on my mind.  And, I like to ask stupid questions.

Lately (over the last 8-12 months or so), most of what's been on my mind is weight loss.  I enjoy discussing my loss publically.  I don't care how many people know my real weight — so long as they know that it's 50 lbs less than what it used to be.  And, I enjoy studying trends in my loss with others. What I'm wondering is:  how crowded is my little world?  How many other people out there enjoy shareing as much as I do?  While I know I'm not normal, I'm wondering how abnormal I am?  And, I'm doing it with ulterior motives.

There are a lot of free weight trackers out there.  I think my favorite is over on http://dailyburn.com/  But, I hate navigating to multiple social sites.  I use tweetdeck or ping.fm to update my status' across twitter, facebook, myspace, etc.  And, I only limit myself to those, because those are the place where I there are people that I know, that are not on the other networks.  I'd love to just have one.  But I digress.

While there are many trackers, I have not found any in my favorite (and arguably the most popular) social networking site, facebook.  So, I've been toying with the idea of creating one.  What'd I'd like is this:

• Weight Tracker
  • Regular
  • Averaged – for daily weighers — a running average will negate the daily water retention changes that cause most programs to tell you to only weigh once a week.
• Exercise Log
  • Will track minutes, calories burned, etc

For both of the applications, I'd like private and public visibility settings, and, hopefully the ability to embed into other blogs.

So — the purpose of this post is really to get a headcount.  Of the people here, how many would find such an applicaiton useful?  I shout my stats out all the time, but, there's a good chance I'm shouting to an empty room.  And, if no one is really listening, and, if no one else wants to shout into the empty room, then I really don't want to waste time writing it.  But, if there are others like me wanting to shout — or — if there are people actually listening, then I think a good, tool, on a more social site, could be really useful.

Thoughts?

P.S.  I'm going to cross post this to my blog.  Where I don't blog.  Because, as usual, this is not very interesting.

I'm very into numbers and charts and graphs and thing but I would never use a Facebook application (I'm hostile like Rafe) for such a thing.  I've generally found that people aren't interested in the slightest in how much weight I lifted or what I currently weigh. 

I've been playing around with the Hacker's Diet Online http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdi…..e/hdo.html which does the moving average thing.  It isn't very useful for tracking execise though.  It's open source, so you might find the source code interesting.