Facebook users often ask how they can feature World Community Grid on their Facebook profile, and benefit from its social networking features to promote World Community Grid. Now you can!

http://apps.facebook.com/world-community-grid/

Here is a little guided tour:

Profile box
Display your World Community Grid statistics in your profile sidebar. You can customise the box by choosing between global, team and personal statistics. You can show your badges, and there are lots of other options to fine-tune your very own profile box.



Your profile box will update automatically every day.

Profile tab
You can add a whole new tab to your profile, showing all of your statistics, badges and certificates. This is a great way of showing off achievements that don't fit into your profile box. To add the tab, go to your profile and click on the new tab button:



Info tab
Facebook lets you list your interests on the Info tab of your profile. Now you can feature your favourite World Community Grid projects there as well.



If you have too many favourite projects to show all the details, you can just list the names instead.



Wall posts
Wall posts about your new badges and certificates are the best way of introducing your friends to World Community Grid without nagging or annoying anyone. It's a great way to track your own progress, too!



Certificates
Certificates are awarded when your points total reaches a new milestone (badges are for computer time). This means your certificate represents your entire contribution to World Community Grid, and members with very fast computers can compete for high scores. Certificates are awarded at various milestones. The early milestones are closer together, and they get further apart until half a million points. After that, you get a new certificate every half million points.

If you don't have a certificate yet, they look like this:



If you earned certificates before you linked your account on Facebook, then those certificates will be undated.

Currently there is only one certificate design. Expect to see more designs in the future.

How to get started
You need to link your World Community Grid account to Facebook. Just go here and follow the instructions: http://apps.facebook.com/world-community-grid/

Why is this better than the "official" WCG Facebook app?
Glad you asked! First of all, there is no official application. The older application they are endorsing was not developed by World Community Grid, it has not been submitted for verification by Facebook, and it is not hosted by World Community Grid. Worse: it has major bugs, the profile box does not update automatically, and even the World Community Grid staff concede that it sucks (in private, anyway). But don't take my word for it! Try it yourself, and you will quickly decide which application is best.

Apologies for reposting this, but I can't find the original post.