Between Twitter, Facebook and Google’s new social networking tool, Buzz, it’s hard to turn a corner without running into another social network. But how do you know which networking tool fits you best? We’re here — with big charts and all — to help.
Facebook Lite is a streamlined, usually faster-loading version of the social network all your old friends from school are using. If you like how it rolls, you can make it your default view for whenever you visit Facebook.com from any browser or link.
Got an Android phone? Got contacts on AOL Instant Messenger, or chatty friends on Facebook? AIM now has an official chat client in the Android Market, one that can run in the background and connect to Facebook and Twitter too.
Whether you call it a huge privacy flaw or just an annoyance, Google Buzz can put the contacts you automatically follow — a.k.a. those you most frequently email or chat — on a public profile page. Here’s how to undo that.
Not to be left out of the Let’s Connect Everything Social party, Facebook and AOL’s Instant Messager announced a beta release of AIM, for Windows, Mac and in a web client, that can operate on Facebook’s chat system, pull and post to and from Facebook status updates, and otherwise integrate your instant messaging with your profile. [via TechCrunch]
One of the better features in Facebook (and now both Picasa and iPhoto) is people-tagging — allowing users to identify who’s in a picture by mousing over the image. Starting today, Flickr’s joined in the fun.
