To me at least, these changes indicate just how Facebook feel about apps; they provide little value. The boxes tab is going to see absolutely no traffic, and I see it following the Network link within 3 - 4 months of the re-design.

Nick, do you have any info on the average length of a Wall Post and Status Update? Character length, word count, no. of paragraphs, etc? I’d love to know where they sit in relation to Twitter’s 140 character limit…