Facebook had already shared its plans to help you clean up your now-cluttered profile, thanks to all those applications, and today the new feature has arrived. A new option for an extended profile basically offers a “page 2″ of sorts, so visitors to your profile can choose to see all those extra, bottom rung applications if they want to. Instead of seeing an ongoing stream of applications on your profile, they’ll now see a truncated version, with the option to see more.

From the looks of it, Facebook will detect which applications display at the bottom of your profile. You can select to move one or all of these apps to your extended profile. This can be edited at any time, in case you tire of another application that’s showing on your profile. A link on your profile will let you view your extended profile as well.

So what are the implications of such an option being rolled out by Facebook?

CleanProfile will have to journey on to Bebo and Friendster, for fear of being put out of business.

The word “bling” will have to undergo another definition amendment , because it should no longer be applied to one’s Facebook profile (as if it should have been in the first place…).

As Nick O’Neill notes, the actual implication of Facebook’s clutter clean-up is the reality that app developers may get even less face time. Is this becoming the grim reality of Facebook app owners? Seems like they’re getting added regulations from all sides.

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