If you own an iPhone (or iPod touch) and you are as addicted to Facebook as I am, you then probably have the new Facebook 2.0 app installed on your Apple mobile device. Facebook Version 2.0 is like day-and-night when compared to 1.x as it offers pretty much all of the functionality of its Web counterpart.

But it is only last week that I was playing around my iPhone’s settings, only to discover there is a Facebook settings pane that had this very interesting option turned off by default: Shake to Reload.

This shows one again how the iPhone’s capabilities can bring man-machine interaction to a more natural level.  I love this feature, use it all the time. The problem is.. I find myself shaking my phone in all other apps to reload too.. Mail, Safari, STM Mobile … to no avail.  My message to developers: you know what to do!

Shaking your iPhone like that in public can make you look a bit crazy, as if you’re about to beat the world record in cellphone throwing, but I’m ready to accept that for the sake of a higher UI usability.