One more thing to add to my previous post, because this widget updates so often, it is a bit of a resource hog and uses quite a bit of CPU capabilities. So if you have a computer with low processing abilities and low memory, I wouldn't recommend this widget.
Ok, so here's what I think of this widget. Its good. Especially if your a facebook junkie like me and all my friends. I sure as hell beats opening an internet browser just to check to see if that person you poked poked you back yet. So it makes facebook a heck of a lot more convienient. On the downside, its design is kinda poor. Its big, not exactly attractive and in general not very customizable. The widget also has some technical issues, such as seeing it refresh every five seconds, kinda …annoying and the updates can't be minimized or modified. Lastly there is an annoying flashing copy link on the top right side. I don't mind it there, but the flashing is seriously annoying. Other than that, this is a very handy widget. So for its lack of customibility and annoyances I give this widget a 3 out of 5.More
This widget is extremely nice, but I second the other person who responded, it'd be great to be able to customize the number of friends displayed, it's taking up more space than I can spare on my desktop.
Even better would be if you could customize the display to be more compact, for example having the option to not display friend pictures.