While you've been able to sync your Facebook updates to Hotmail for a while, the new Windows Live will allow you to coordinate all of your interactions with the biggest social network in the world, as well as a whole range of other online services.
With over 150 million users, Facebook is the world's largest and fastest growing social network, and the amount of activities that you and your friends can conduct using it is staggering. According to their statistics, over 13 million users update their status every day, more than 800 million photos are uploaded onto the site every month, and in the same timeframe an average of 2 million events will be created on the site. Meaning that each day, users worldwide will spend as much as 3 billion minutes using the site each day. Phew, those are some big numbers.
With all that time spent on Facebook, it's easy to neglect all those other parts of your life scattered across the Web; that Flickr account, your Last FM playlist, and the next Tweet you were planning on sending out can all go under the stairs if you let them. But the new Windows Live lets you receive all the updates you need from these services, as well as a unique functionality that allows you to upload photos, message friends and update your status on Facebook all from one place, with just one password to remember.
If you'll let us go back to the stats just for a second we do promise this is the last time Facebook reports that the average user has 100 friends on the site. While there are some who've had the restraint and good sense not to add every single person they've ever met, there are just as many more who have, and some who clearly extend the definition of "friend" to within an inch of its life.
The problem here is that every time your ex's neighbour needs their TV fixed you'll get a status update on your Facebook profile about it, did you really need to know that so-and-so who you had nothing to do with from school just had their puppy de-sexed? Or see the photos they took of him when they got home from the vet? Probably not, in fact the novelty of being able to add people that you haven't seen in years quite possibly with good reason tends to have its shelf life, though we don't have any stats to back that up.
Windows Live and Facebook, will you be syncing them up? Let us know below.
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