Facebook Monitor

Companies or individuals can acquire all kinds of useful information from Facebook pages, but keeping track of news posted by all your friends or competitors is no easy feat.

Facebook Monitor is a simple application that can take care of this job for you, allowing you to focus on more important tasks. It is capable of monitoring pages, groups or posts, as well as replying to posts or comments automatically.

Facebook Monitor can track pages, groups or posts, providing you with updates whenever new content is added. You can add as many as you like, but it may be difficult to sort through the results if too many sources are inserted.

The application performs a check on a user-defined interval, and you can specify if it should notify you about new posts, comments or likes, display visual alerts or play a sound.

Facebook Monitor can post comments or replies automatically, and you can use wildcards to insert a person’s name into the generated replies.

This feature and other advanced functions are explained in the available online documentation, but you cannot open the web page from the Help menu, as you are instead directed to the developer’s frontpage.

Once you start monitoring, a lot of data is displayed in the two panels, and sorting through the entries is not particularly easy. You cannot change the interface’s layout or resize the panels to make the feeds easier to read, and not all the columns can be resized.

Most importantly, however, the entries are not categorized based on their source, so it is very difficult to tell which page, group or post they relate to.

To conclude, Facebook Monitor is a great tool for those who need to keep track of all the new content added to various Facebook pages. However, it does not categorize updates, so you may find it difficult to browse the reports, and it does not help that the default interface layout cannot be customized.