FBFriendfinder finds your Twitter, Linkedin, Flickr friends on Facebook
Ever wanted to add everyone on Facebook that you follow on Twitter? Or perhaps Digg, BrightKite, Foursquare or LinkedIn? Well, now you can, almost.
Enter the newly launched application, aptly named FBFriendFinder that will let you log in to all your services (securely), and it will help you find the people on you follow on other services, on Facebook.
For me, it found some 150 or so people (out of the 190 that I follow on Twitter) on Facebook. But, it said, give us $2.35 before you can add them all. The app called it “beer money,” and said that I could use the app forever. Liking the low price, and the request for money to buy a drink, I complied.
The service integrates with PayPal for secure transactions.
Then things went a little odd. It said that it had added the first twenty people, and that I could get started with the next 20 if I clicked on a button. I had assumed that it would be 100% automated.
I clicked the “next 20″ button, and was presented with a neat little sideshow of friends. I saw the first one, clicked add friend, and then moved to the next slide. This part of the application is snappily coded.
But this slide had the same name, and a different picture! Confused, I skipped ahead. The application, instead of finding the person that you actually follow on Facebook, presents you with all the people on Facebook with that name. Not good, I am not sure who I actually added in the first attempt.
It’s hard to find the right Hiten Shah, or whomever, when not everyone uses a profile picture that is of their face, if you know what that person looks like. Perhaps there is a way to improve this.
But, the application is cheap, does bring all your contacts quickly, and does search well. If you have the time to sift, it will make it easier to connect with those people on Facebook. And for a dollar or two, how can you lose?
Alex Wilhelm is a Chicago-based technology blogger and entrepreneur. He has worked for a number of technology companies in recent years, and has a particular interest in watching the social web monetize. Follow Alex on Twitter, or on Facebook. You can reach Alex via email at alex.w@thenextweb.com
Wish they had this for FriendFeed, so I can import everyone in.
Shevonne – I totally agree. From Friend feed they could use those who have linked it with their facebook so you don’t need to sift through everyone’s pics to ensure you get the right ones…
Thanks for the review! I’ll use your input to enhance the service. I’ll focus on communicating some stuff a bit clearer.
Furthermore I am curious what other networks people want to see being added?
Suggestion for Bebo, Orkut, Google Contacts have been noted down already and are in the pipeline.
Looking forward to your input!
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Thanks for posting this… I was really excited about it until I saw it takes money to make it work…
I’d be using it and promoting it to friends right now, but instead I’m just explaining why the cost makes it not worth my time.
But I’m very much on the lookout for a service like this. I’d love to build a Facebook page specific to all of my 2,000 twitter follows.
Of course if this is the only solution for that maybe I will have to pay? For now at least I’m still searching for something better!
Peace
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Why is this described by Websense as "potentially damaging"?
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You might want to censor out a couple more names in that last screenshot.
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they don’t have the answer Davor, may be because they can start scamming with socializing.
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Thanks for the review! I’ll use your input to enhance the service. I’ll focus on communicating some stuff a bit clearer.
Furthermore I am curious what other networks people want to see being added?
Suggestion for Bebo, Orkut, Google Contacts have been noted down already and are in the pipeline.
Looking forward to your input!
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@RWW thanks for the lovely review. Please note that comment no. 5 is actually comment spam, it is my comment from The Next Web blog but pasted by somebody I don’t know and is not me.
@Davor, @Lyanna: As I mention on the FbFriendFinder site: We don’t store any userdata, besides ID’s from people who pay, for recurring logins. We don’t mail people, even have mail, we cannot auto-friend people, we don’t store any friend data. It is only used for looking up your potential friends on Facebook.
@Deane I have limitted the app to only retrieved your 300 most recently added Twitter friends. I have put limitters on all contacts retrieved, because it would take to long to find em all on Facebook anyhow and in my view you want to use the service to find some of those friends you wanted to add all along, not find and add thousands and thousands of people.
Furthermore @Deane, this service is kinda free if you see it just as giving a beer to me to thank me
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I also have set a maximum price as you might notice in the screenshot in this article. You pay a-cent-per-friend for the first 500 people to lookup. So $5.35 is the maximum price, also if you want to look up e.g. 1433 people.
greetings from Amsterdam,
@roelandp
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Good one.. Thanks for this info..
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@ Roeland You might want to get in touch with Websense, mate.
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Very good article Jolie
Something that I came across recently that you may be intersted in is this website (www.theisbook.com) that generates your Facebook Status for you when you’re not feeling very creative:
http://www.theisbook.com/status-generator/
Check it out and thank me later
Keep up the good work, I look forward to reading more of your stuff.
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Good to see some spice flavor for Linkedin. Else my Linkedin status was not updated from long
Thanks for posting Justin! And, love your Facebook Connect integration. Here’s to a more social web.
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