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Facebook - introducing the homepageDAILY app

Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you. It is one of the hottest websites in the world at the moment and is valued at a cool $15 billion. If you haven't got your face on Facebook by now you really don't want to be found online.

Facebook used to be exclusively for American college students but now its available for everyone. And that's a good thing, because it's easy to use and infinitely more attractive than MySpace. Facebook makes MySpace look very 2006.

You can upload photos or publish notes, get the latest news from your friends, post videos on your profile, tag your friends, use privacy settings to control who sees your info, join a network or group to see people who live, study, or work with you or share similar interests. There are lots of user-made applications that allow you to share movies, music, videos with your friends and network, and you can also make each other zombies and lots of silly stuff if that tickles your fancy.

If you've lost touch with ex-school friends and workmates, you may just find them again on Facebook. You'll have to register to see most info, but when you do, join up to the Facebook homepageDAILY group and keep in contact with all the other friends of HPD.

You don't even need to join the HPD group to keep in touch with the site, as we've now got a homepageDAILY Facebook app that will put the most popular content right on your profile. You can a random 5 of the top 10 Most Popular updated several times a day so content is always changing.

Of course, you have to register with Facebook to join the homepageDAILY group or use the app, so to do that click View button below to visit the Facebook homepage.

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