Why the apps?

One of the reasons I hate Facebook is its apps, they make it so hard to use, adds unnecessary functionality, and gives you annoying notices about people inviting you to use their apps.

Recently, Friendster (which is the only social network website I use right now) added apps, fine, they didn't have invitations or anything, I just ignored them, I didn't add any applications, until ,a few days back, I started receiving app invitations from Friendster, I was so pissed, and so disappointed.

I just don't get it, these are supposed to be social networking websites, not online operating systems.

Orkut

Just yesterday I created an orkut account.
I have an account on Friendster because all my friends from the Philippine School Muscat have accounts there, but I didn't bother creating an orkut account because most of them are from India, Pakistan, and Brazil, or at least that's what I thought.
Don't misunderstand me, I'm not racist, it's just that I don't know much people from those countries.
Surprisingly, I found a lot of my friends from the Philippine School, they even have a community :-/
Not only that, but they even have this thing called "Scrapbook", it's like comments but more like a chat, people reply to that really quickly.
In conclusion, there is more to social networking than Friendster :P