Tying your profiles together

Just in case one social networking site isn’t enough for you — well, who am I kidding, no one in the world uses just one of these sites. If you use any at all then chances are you’re using more than one.

So for us, Facebook has a few applications that will help make connections between sites. For example, Twitter allows you to update your Twitter status using your Facebook status. (Some users are complaining because the status default is “X is twittering:” but developers promise to remove the “twittering:” as soon as Facebook removes the “is.”) You can also try TwitterSync, which doesn’t have the “is twittering” annoyance, although the app demands extended access to your Facebook account, and as you know, any hint of privacy violation makes me nervous.

My Links doesn’t affect your other profiles, but it does help you link to them on your Facebook profile. Enter profiles URLs from any of a long, long list of networking sites and My Links will put links to your pages on your Facebook profile. That way, friends and stalkers who really need to be checking up on you in depth can easily visit all your pages using your Facebook page as a hub.

This doesn’t always happen, but while researching apps for this post I found a tool I’ve actually been needing. It’s called Blog Link, and it puts a screenshot of your blog onto your Facebook profile. Viewers can click the shot to go through to your blog. My personal blog is on a small social network, and most of my online activity happens there. It’s nice to have a way to let my Facebook friends know where to go if they want to see my regular updates.

There’s a similar, more specific feature for MySpace users called MySpace Link. Like Blog Link, this application puts a screenshot of your MySpace profile onto your Facebook profile. It’s a good way to use Facebook to redirect people to MySpace, although I’d prefer to do it the other way around. But then, I am not a big MySpace fan.

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