I am gradually warming to Facebook, while self restricting my access to it ( Twitter seems to be running in the background though!).
I was reading Graham Attwell's article re the usefulness of some of the widgets available in Facebook and yes some are shall we say politely 'less than useful', but some are great and lead me to use FaceBook more and more as a 'One Stop Shop' aggregator some of the more useful add ons for me would be :
* Skype online
* My Blogs - a widget which shows the titles of new posts from friends blogs
* Del.icio.us - a great widget which allows you to switch to your Del.iciou.us page
* Twittervision - a widget which works on your own contact list
* YouTube - a widget which allows you to play YouTube vids in your space
* Friend finder - a great way to find if your e-mail list friends are also on FaceBook
and the latest which is thanks to Graham ,
* Zoho Online Office - a widget which allows you from within facebook to view shared files and upload new files to your Zoho account.
These are fab attachments which added to the constant updating of friends data makes it a must in order to keep 'in the mix'. A good example of how our kids are using FaceBook - my eldest daughter Sian came back from a few days in Paris yesterday evening and immediately downloaded all of the pictures from her mobile phone to FaceBook for all of her friends to see, they have posted theirs thus giving the group of 7 kids who went a vast library of images of their experiences..... 21st Century who needs old fashioned photographs??
As you can see from this post, my panic about constant online time in Social Networking is beginning to ease (or am I coming more under its spell?) - it was a timely thought as others such as Karyn Romeis is also looking into the use of the Social Networking Phenomenon.... I think that I am going out into the 'real world' now .............. not quite sure, as the line are a bit blurred between the two :)
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