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Green My Ride: Facebook's latest eco app

Green my Ride, the new eco app on Facebook
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Meet Green My Ride, the latest Facebook application to help you justify 2am status updates because "you're saving the planet". Following hot on the heels of the Facebook's green add-ons I Am Green and Green Leaves, this new app encourages you to tell the world about the green products you own.

I installed the app this morning and it's fun -- for five minutes at least. The catalogue of products included some of my household regulars such as Ecover stain remover and Tom's of Maine deodorant. You can even shamelessly lie and pretend you're the proud owner of a Tesla Roadster (which four users have already done). Why bother? Well, if you invite a bunch of friends and claim to own lots of eco products, you'll get a greener car on your Green My Ride profile.

There are 60 daily users using the app now, so it'll be interesting to see if it reaches the heights of I Am Green, which is on a whopping 1,620. Do you know of any other cool eco apps on Facebook? Hit up the comments below with your faves.

Posted: 19 May 2008, 12:14pm by Adam Vaughan
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