Facebook has been on my radar for a while – and I’ve dabbled before (when working at WWF someone created an Earth Hour Facebook group that we heard about, so I – somewhat embarrasingly and belatedly – created a profile for WWF in support of the group).
But it seems it has started picking up some steam – at least in the tech/geek community. I received three invites in the space of two days from friends, and since I (finally) created an account to see what the fuss is about (much the same as Priscilla did) I’ve had 16 friends add in less than a week.
The integration with common email programs and their address books is very interesting. It allows you to find people on Facebook that you have an existing relationship very easily.
Facebook recently opened up their platform to application developers which is a bold move and looks like it’ll pay dividends for them in terms of increasing their user base. I’ve already added a Twitter application (though I’m not quite sure what it does yet). And I’ve been invited to iLike within Facebook too.
Either way – it’s definitely a site and platform that’s worth watching and getting your head around if you’re interested in the social media space.
Update: Phil Lamb from EchoDitto talks about the platform launch. And Laurel points to a beauty – Ning now integrates with Facebook. Ning is a social network building tool that now integrates with another social networking tool. Leverage the power and effort in one space to support another. Clever.
