Facebook's seeing some big changes over the next couple of months, as this characteristically thorough breakdown from Inside Social Games details. Consequently, there's never been a better time to whinge about the way games are handled on the world's number one social networking platform. Here are four Christmas wishes, in no particular order.

1. Less shovelware

For every FarmVille or Pet Society on Facebook there's a barebones Mario rip-off swimming in ads, or a dodgily localised board game, or another of those "vampires vs. chipmunks"-style glorified poking experiences. The same's true of a lot of social networking sites, of course, not to mention the App Store.

User rating systems and algorithms are a serviceable way of ensuring the cream rises to the top, but it may repay the company to cut a little fat from its back catalogue and tighten the old QA procedures.

2. House games

If taking a pair of shears to the line-up doesn't appeal, Facebook might lead by example instead, rolling up a talented developer or three to produce the odd absolutely cracking first-party game. Which everyone else can then spend the next six months plagiarising to a bleeding stump.

3. Personalisable game spaces

Facebook's pop-out Applications menu (which currently includes Games) is due to be moved from the bottom tool-bar to the left-hand nav column, just below your profile pic. Games are getting their own separate feed, and users will also be able to bookmark individual titles here.

It's a welcome streamlining of the process of locating and launching a game, but we want something more comprehensive - a dedicated, image-driven, customisable channel for those who have a dozen management sims or brain-trainers on the go at once.

4. A more informative category system

The current Games section has exactly three subcriteria - "Verified", "Popular" and "Recently Added". All well and dandy, but we like to able to tell our cafe sims from our block puzzlers, and our mouse racers from our word spinners. Put some flesh on that taxonomy, guys.

That's our ten pence. How would you go about improving Facebook gaming?