I rarely log into my Facebook account, merely because I find it to be huge black hole of information and over zealous features that sucks you in and leaves you an hour later with no sense of direction or what you were doing before you started.

So when I did log in I saw a nifty new facebook feature on the homepage. An box displaying people who you might know on in the sidebar of the Facebook Layout. This feature, is an algorithm that no doubt easily determines who are friends with lots of your friends and/or come from the same hometown.

Not a bad feature but, never the less it brings up those people you’ve been trying to ignore or people you rejected ages ago. Haha.

I’ve been using it and it rocks! The Facebook Toolbar is the next logical step in Facebook, the social mecca’s, path. Click on the image and it will show you what the Facebook toolbar contains. It prompts you on any Massages, Friends and Pokes you have waiting for you. It gives you teh ability to have an overview of your friends’s status and Quick Links menu to get to certain parts of your Facebook without delay.

There’s a search function that makes it easy to find your friends and a share button, much like a Muti or del.icio.us buttons.

Very cool I must say. There might be room for improvement, but I admire the fact that less is more in Facebook. Have a look at some of the Facebook functions in action!

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