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And this is why:

Facebook is a social network tool. It is designed to make it easier to keep in touch with your friends.  Once you sign up, you set up a profile for yourself, and then you can start finding your friends.  You can search for people by name, school (high school and college), and workplace. 

Once you have friends set up, the interaction starts!  Updates to your friends profiles will automatically show up on your Facebook home page.  When you first get your account, your profile will show any contact info you enter, interests, favorite music, TV, movies, books, and quotes, as well as your education and work history.  Any photos you upload and any Facebook user groups you join will show up on your profile as well.  There’s also a message board on your profile called “The Wall”.  Anyone can write a message on your wall for everyone (or just your friends, depending on your privacy options) to see.

Facebook also has many “applications” available to install into your profile.  Most of the ones I’ve seen are for entertainment.  Lots of mini social games and such.  Of course there’s also useful additions like weather and various political awareness apps.

It’s completely free, and there’s nothing to install on your computer.  Everything is done through the Facebook website.  If you use Firefox, there is an extension to provide better integration with Facebook.  Try out Facebook, and find out what you’ve been missing!  Once you’re on, go ahead and check out my profile.  Feel free to add me as a friend.

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It goes without saying that, given the option, you really should use Firefox if you’re browsing the web. It’s a more secure browser than Internet Explorer, it’s more productive, and you can personalize it.

That’s what I’m talking about today. Firefox Extensions. Here’s my list of essential extensions for Firefox.

• Adblock Plus - Removes ads from pages you view, so pages load faster.
• Fasterfox - A few performance and network tweaks for Firefox, so everything goes a little faster.
• Firefox Companion for eBay - Gives you a sidebar showing the activity of anything you’re watching, bidding, or selling on eBay, as well as providing quick access to eBay search.
• Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer - If you have multiple computers or multiple operating systems running Firefox, this wonderful extension will keep your bookmarks synchronized between systems for you.
• Gmail Skins - If you use Gmail, this lets you skin the interface. Mine is yellow.
• ScribeFire - Blog editor that integrates with Firefox and lets you post to your blogs from wherever you are on the web.
• StumbleUpon - I haven’t used this one in a while, but it’s a great way to waste time and find new web sites on the web. It learns what you like to look at, and makes recommendations based on that. You can also use it to meet people with similar browsing interests.
• Tab Mix Plus - Lets you change how Firefox’s tabbed browsing behaves. You can change which tab gets focus by default when a tab closes, change tab focus on mouse over instead of clicking, undo closed tabs, and fit tab size to tab titles, to name just a few options.

So that’s it! If you don’t have Firefox, give it a try. You may just find that you like it.

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So, I’ve tested Flock, and I’m giving up on it. It’s nice, but it just doesn’t support as many plugins as Firefox. I still want to be able to blog from any website in my browser, so I’m trying out the ScribeFire extension. Posting from it right now. It integrates well with most blogs, and it seems to work just fine with my WordPress blogs.

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So, I’m testing out the Flock social web browser. It’s based on Firefox, which I’ve been using for a long time. The Flock broswer is designed to integrate with social web sites such as YouTube, Flickr, Photobucket, Blogger, Wordpress, del.icio.us, and LiveJournal. It also integrates with self-hosted blogs such as this one. I’m posting right now from flock without having logged in to my website. It’s cool, I think I may keep it.

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