Facebook Connect available to 120 million users and partners

Facebook Connect; use your Facebook ID to stay connected wherever you go on the Web.

The new feature launched by Facebook is being adopted by many and available today to its vast user base of 120 million Facebookers and counting, as well as, many high-profile Websites which will also be weaving this new service into their sites.

The service, as explained by the NYT, allows its members to log onto other Web sites using their Facebook identification and see their friends’ activities on those sites. Facebook’s ID gives you easy way into these third-party sites without the need to go through the tedious step of creating new accounts in order to access certain sites,  plus your actions are re-broadcasted to all of your friends and contacts on Facebook.

Third party sites who have integrated the Facebook Connect feature since its recent launch include: Discovery Channel, CBS.com, Twitter, San Francisco Chronicle, Hulu and Digg- soon to be adopted by many, many, many more.

I’m sure there’s many of you out there who just can’t be bothered to create new accounts and remember every single nickname, ‘mother’s maiden name’, ‘favorite pet’, ‘high school teacher’, you use as your login information..it’s annoying! Facebook has come to save the day!

How does Facebook Connect open doors for you? Simple. Say you’re a blogger and you’re checking out Digg. You log into Digg using your Facebook ID or you can set it off by default by making your selection here:

You then vote, digg here digg there, basically do everything you’d normally do on Digg and your actions will come up on your Facebook’s news feed. This means all your friends will be able to tell where you’re at, what you’re watching, commenting, reviewing, etc, plus, they can join you ‘live’ while you’re at it.

Privacy issues. We still need to hear back regarding these. It’s clearly open source, but it’s also up to the user to approve which information gets broadcasted or not.  If anyone has anything to add, please let us know.

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