Nerve Endings Firing Away

I signed on to my Facebook profile [yup! I have one, like millions of other college students in the US] earlier today to see a new feature – Notes. Essentially, Notes are nothing but blogs on Facebook where you can share your thoughts with your ‘campus friends’ although they refuse to call them blogs “because then you’d be a blogger.” That weirdness aside, they allow you to import your existing blogs and syndicate the contents on your Facebook profile.

One nifty feature is that you can tag your friends if you talk about them in a post. That will send them a notification that they have been tagged in a “note”. Similarly, you can search for notes that have tagged you. Like other Facebook features, the privacy level is maintained. Marshall Kirkpatrick at Techcrunch was disappointed that they couldn’t embed a YouTube video or even a Javascript code. But I guess, I can live with that.

Right now, I may not syndicate this blog which is anonymous at least on the face of it and the link to my other “academic” blog is posted on my profile. I don’t use Facebook as much as some of my other friends do so any added features aren’t really helpful to me. But I am glad that Facebook is incorporating such interactive features. I prefer Facebook any day to the largely fake world of MySpace.