Filed under: Cell Phones, BlackBerry, MySpace, E-Mail Addiction
Facebook is definitely encroaching on MySpace’s space, if yesterday’s Microsoft/Facebook news is any indication, but the formerly student-only social networking site is busy going after another sophisticated, most-likely-well-educated, professional, or at least famous crowd — the BlackBerry set. Need proof? Look no further than the new mobile Facebook application for BlackBerry from Research in Motion (RIM), the device’s creator/manufacturer.
The new app lets you do the essentials on the social networking site. For example, if you’ve got a camera equipped Pearl or Curve, you can upload photos, “poke” (a suggestive term for text message), send mail, and post on users’ virtual walls. According to early reports from the CTIA conference, the app is just about as fast as the mobile Web version, but much prettier.
Due out by year’s end, the app will come pre-installed on new BlackBerrys, making it even easier for all your co-workers to try and get in on your private life and network, so no more drunken’ pictures of you making out with a stranger on the barstool, y’all!
BlackBerry owners: Is this going help you take the plunge and finally get on Facebook, or, if you’re already a Facebook member, do you think this will turn you into a Crack-Berry-head?
From Research in Motion (RIM) (via BetaNews)
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