I was on Facebook tonight (per usual… while I typically ignore MySpace and Friendster, I find myself getting sucked in more and more with Facebook. I hate to say it, but it might just have to do with the News Feed that I trashed; although, what I say in that post still holds true).
Anyway, I found something relatively new (at least I’ve only noticed it in the past couple weeks) under the Friends link: an option called “Friend Finder.”
Now there used to be something there that would let you enter a random friend’s email address and see if they were on Facebook (Gee, that’s not painstaking) - but this experience has been upgraded a bit:
Basically you enter an email address and password, and they compare your contacts’ email addresses to email addresses on Facebook.
At first, I was skeptical of how well this would work (I have a lot of random email addresses in GMail), but I was surprised at how effective it was. On more than one occasion, I caught myself saying, “Wow, they’re in Facebook? I had no idea!” Since the info isn’t getting stored beyond the initial search, it’s an interesting way to quickly reconnect. Then, with one button press, invitations were sent to all of the contacts I had selected.
