Applications folder created in home folder

I just noticed that there is an empty folder named "Applications" in my home directory, created today.
It has the Applications folder icon on it, but is, as I said, empty.
I installed AppUpdate today.
Could that have created the folder and is it safe to delete it? I have full read/write privileges, my admin user has read only, and others have read only access, if it makes a difference.
Thanks!
Message was edited by: joshz

The ~/Applications folder in the user account is normally used for applications installed in that account, for example, applications you don't want everyone to be able to run, or if the account doesn't have privileges for /Applications. It is not there by default, and you don't need to use it if you don't want to.

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Daniel Worley wrote:
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