facebook

So I was feeling a bit left out, people post these mega useful things on Facebook about what they are doing, why they want to commit suicide and how they couldn't live without Facebook but I don't.

(Common updates to peoples status)

I wanted to be involved and I'm sure people will want to read what I have to say like the 73 (and dropping) who subscribe through Feedburner here on ImAFish. I read on Mashable, Digg or Techcrunch about Twitter almost every day and I will admit I've tried to stay away from it. Why would anyone want to read about what I've had for breakfast or how I curled the longest one off ever into the toilet afterwards.

It turns out people do like to know these things, weather it makes them feel more normal by seeing what others are doing or they are just generally interested I don't know. So I signed up to Twitter and configured it so I can post from my mobile phone, instant messenger and Mac dashboard. I had no excuse not to post.

I've never been a fan of Facebook (even though it sends me shed loads of traffic), in fact it pisses me off how I can't put my adverts on there (and I've tried hard - not that anyone clicks ads on Facebook) however I do already have a large number of friends on there that I'm sure are interested in my daily life. Fortunately there is a Twitter application on Facebook that will automatically update my status based on what I send to Twitter.

You will be please to know you can be expecting a lot more updates from me.

I came across FacebookSync yesterday on TUAW, the application allows you to synchronise your Mac's Address Book with all your contacts in Facebook. For the majority of my contacts it added pictures, email addresses and birthdays to my current contacts and for those that weren't in my Address Book it added new contacts.

(TUAW Pic)

Most of my contacts are on Facebook and the program did a nice job of matching contacts up. For those that it couldn't match I had to select contacts then merge so that there were not duplicate entries.

Once synchronised I could use iSync to copy all the updated contacts to my phone. (iSync supports most Nokia, Motorola , Samsung and Sony Ericsson phones, for Windows Mobile based ones try Missing Sync).

Overall its a nice utility that makes good use of Facebook.