Say you’ve gotten into the routine of changing your Facebook status as you go about your day. It’s information that you’d like to keep your friends abreast of. And perhaps they appreciate you for it, too. But manually making the switch is costing you clicks of the cursor better used for other stuff. Like chomping through your email inbox. Really, it seems like time wasted.
If that’s the case, and you would simply like to automate your status updates to correspond to a schedule, a developer by the name of Ross Squires has released an application called Automatous to make your Facebook account adhere to the timeline you specify.
Automatous is in “public testing” mode, which requires that, following the application’s installation, you will need to submit your email address for approval for the beta trial. My own experience is that approval takes only a short while to complete, so you’ll be ready to give it a try in short time. After you’ve made your way through the confirmation process, scheduling a status update, is as simple as clicking the ‘Add New Status’ button. Options to pause and remove entries are presented as well.
That’s basically the extent of the application’s utility. It’s entirely intuitive, and it of course recognizes current time, so if you’re looking to quickly schedule a status update to activate the very moment you press ‘Add’, you may. Visually speaking, it as elementary as can be. Apart from it’s interactive option icons and the Ads by Google bar alongside the main menu, it is completely no-nonsense.