Valentine’s Day, the joint venture between Hallmark and Satan, is fast approaching, bringing with it a flurry of Facebook applications.

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The latest Facebook fashion application to come out of the closet is Wear It Share It, or Wishi for short, which is aimed at making women’s closets social.

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Facebook users who are nervous about unwittingly excluding friends from their events now have access to a third-party Facebook application that may be able to quell their fears.

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The mystery behind the Timeline Movie Maker domains that were registered earlier this month has been solved, as Facebook announced the launch of an application under that name that allows users to create movies highlighting moments from their timelines.

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People worry that timeline will put their entire lives on display or require a seemingly infinite amount of time to customize. Neither of these has to be true!

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Facebook is doing its part to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment with its launch of the Women Connect application Thursday.

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Extra! Extra! Gannett’s national newspaper jumped aboard the Facebook open graph applications bandwagon with the launch of USA Today + Me.

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Can you kill something if it’s already dead? We got an email yesterday afternoon about a Facebook application called Kill SOPA when it was already moot.

Key backers of the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act, and several other lawmakers, had already announced that they were dropping their support of the bills.

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Facebook has been evolving into more of an operating system than a standalone website, but this hasn’t suddenly happened overnight.

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The right-hand side of timeline will soon be the official home for the action-oriented applications that make use of variations on the like button.

As of this writing, the promised layout has yet to materialize on Facebook, so we’re still seeing wall posts showing up in both columns of the timeline.

But soon, the left side will effectively be the wall, and the right side will show what you’re doing in different applications.

The demos we watched last night suggest that this new right-hand column will have a chronological organization, just like the left side has.

Curating this side of the timeline will become a matter of deciding what to include and what to hide from view.

Moving your mouse over to the upper right-hand corner of each item on the timeline makes visible two icons:

• A star, which lets you choose to hide or highlight a timeline post; and
• A  pencil icon,which when clicked upon pulls down a longer menu of items. This includes hide the item, delete it, mark the item as spam, add a location or time to it.

Furthermore, you’ll want to go into the privacy settings in the upper right-hand corner of your screen and adjust how much of your activity in each application you want to go out to news feeds.

Click the little down arrow in the uppermost right-hand corner of the page, then click on “edit settings” beneath and to the right of “apps and websites.”

Then on the ensuing page, click the box labeled “edit settings” next to the column of apps you use, and then click on the next page click “edit” next to each app to adjust each one.