If you have an Android device, and are sitting around the house this evening wondering what you should do with yourself, look no further; you could be a beta tester for Facebook! As if you don't spend enough time on there, now you can justify it by telling loved ones and naysayers that you are a beta tester!

Facebook realizes that with Android's openness, reach, and diversity create enormous opportunities for developers.

Tthe Android beta program will give users who opt-in access to the latest versions of Facebook for Android before the general release. Our goals with this program are to expand our pool of testers and gain feedback across a more diverse set of devices. Just by using the app and reporting issues, beta testers will be able to help us improve performance on a wide variety of Android devices we may have otherwise been unable to test at scale.

This will give us the opportunity to eliminate our blindspots and identify a snapshot of the diversity of use cases to test our apps so when we push to our whole user base, everyone has a better experience. Whether someone is using Gingerbread or Jelly Bean, more complete testing coverage gives us the opportunity to make sure more people can access a stable, high-performance Facebook.

Anyone can join the beta program. When you join, you will get a small batch of fixes and new features every month. We ask that you use your app as you normally would, but submit a report when you encounter a bug or other issue. Because the beta build will have features that are still in progress, the app may be less stable than you're accustomed to. Feedback on stability, as well as any other performance issues you experience, is crucial and deeply appreciated.

If you want to participate in the program you will need to join Facebook for Android Beta Testers Google group.

Anyone can join the beta program, but some might also see prompts to download the beta build in a special notification within their Facebook for Android app.