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Dry Alert! The following content is not meant to be funny or entertaining. Simply informative.

Lately I’ve been bolstering up my account on Facebook with photos and such. I’ve used it in the past, but I stopped for a while because only a few people I know have been using it. Now a few more have joined and I discovered that it has all sorts of features that knock the socks off MySpace.

With MySpace, you have a page, your friend has a page, you have photos, your friends have photos, but they are entirely separate from each other except for the occasional comment. Facebook’s system allows much greater integration, especially with its tagging system. If I write a note or upload a photo that is about or contains someone else in my Facebook friend list, I can tag it with their name, which means that a link is created on their profile. From one friend’s page, I can see all of the photos that anyone has that contain this friend.
The feed feature is great too, which gives a list of everything that has effected their page recently: comments, new photos, other photos that have been tagged with your name, even blog items from your external blog.

The entire system is much more interactive.

There is also much more fine tuned control with respect to what people get to see what information in your profile.

Also, check out their awesome text message interface for adding friends, changing your status, posting comments, etc, all from your cell phone.

In the past, Facebook was only open to students of certain colleges and universities, but a few months ago it has been opened up to everyone.

Check out my Facebook profile and create your own profile. That is not a request, it is a demand.