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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.
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by Patrix | on Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006 at 7:33 pm | 
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August 22nd, 2006 at 8:26 pm
[...] Facebook is on a roll…they now have blogs (as Mashable announced earlier today)! Even though I’m not someone that would ever use a myspace or facebook blog, there are people that would and facebook is smart to keep those people on their site. Interestingly, Facebook calls them “notes” rather than blogs since they seem to feel their users don’t want to be called bloggers. I won’t bore you futher with what others have already written about, but I will say this– I agree with this blog, whose author said, “I prefer Facebook any day to the largely fake world of MySpace.” « How to Ruin a Corporate Blog | [...]
August 22nd, 2006 at 10:31 pm
Ew, Myspace. It doesn’t even begin to compare. I saw the addition in my facebook as well, but it just made my shake my head Being a blogger has become yet another ‘cool’ trend… -sigh-
September 6th, 2006 at 8:12 pm
[...] Facebook is one social networking site I enjoy being a part of. Although I recently joined Orkut as well and found a host of old friends, I still prefer the constantly-evolving world of Facebook. After adding Notes - a blog-like feature a month back, Facebook has added - News Feed and Mini Feed. [...]