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I’m not one for littering my Facebook wall with crazy applications, but a new application that launched yesterday caught my attention.

Slide, Inc. launched FunSpace Channels, which will allow facebookers to share TV shows and other videos directly through posts on Facebook. You can view videos from Hulu (which has every TV show you could ever imagine), CBS and Warner Brothers.

Translation: now not only can you watch Lipstick Jungle and Gossip Girl online, but you can post full episodes on your friend’s walls for quick reference. “Check out the skirt Serena is wearing after the third commercial!”

Ok so I probably won’t really do this. I guess it’s a cool thing to be able to watch videos on a site that you frequent almost daily anyways, but I think I’m going to stick to Hulu.com. I’m a big fan of watching TV online and Hulu’s been good to me in the past.

Anyways, is it really that much of a hassle to open up a new window to watch your favorite show on it’s original site? Will we soon be hooking up our email to Facebook?

Also, I thought the catchphrase of Facebook was “Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life”, (referencing the new facebook’s homepage), aka encouraging person-to-person communication. Not sitting on your Facebook page for hours on a Saturday morning watching every past episode of The Office.

I think Mark Zuckerberg is just encouraging us to be zombies in front of the Facebook screen (think ad revenue) instead of zombies in front of the TV per usual. Slide, Inc. is already the most popular third-party application, with 20 million active users monthly.