Facebook for the iPhone

Facebook is a popular social-networking site where users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profile to notify friends about themselves. The it is now available on the iPhone. The App is divided in five tabs.

The Home Tab lets you track the status of your friends, as well as update your own status with text or photos (taken within the app or chosen from your iPhone photo library). You can tap on the blue arrow next to any message to open that person’s profile.

The second tab is your profile.

The Friends tab displays your friends in a alphabetical list similar to the iPhone’s own Contacts application, but with thumbnails for friends who’ve set a photo for their profiles.

The Chat tab takes you to the chat interface, which is broken up into Available Friends and Idle Friends; from here you can start an SMS-like chat with a friend.

And the Inbox tab lists any messages sent to you—click on one to read and, if you want, reply.

What these awesome app doesn’t do is let you search for or invite new friends (guess you have to do it on your pc), nor does it let you accept friend invitations from others. It also doesn’t show notifications, and can’t access any Facebook applications. In other words, the app is nice for very specific interacting with your current network, but not expanding it.

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