Face­book has 200 mil­lion sub­scribers which des­pite it being the num­ber one social net­work­ing site on the planet, means it still has a fair chunk of the human race to go.

So to make the task easier for people, Face­book has embraced the OpenID concept which means people that have other login details that are accept­able to other OpenID par­ti­cipants e.g. Yahoo, Microsoft, Google etc can now sign-up for a Face­book account using an exist­ing OpenID login.

In a nut­shell, this means that if you have an MSN Mes­sen­ger email account, you can use now the login details you have for this account; to sign-up for a new Face­book account without hav­ing to cre­ate (and remem­ber) a sep­ar­ate User­name and Password.

Fur­ther­more Face­book has taken the idea one step fur­ther by ensur­ing that people with GMail accounts, can sim­il­arly cre­ate a new account with Face­book using their exist­ing sign-in credi­en­tials. some­thing that other OpenID par­ti­cipants haven’t done as yet.

If you spend any time on web and act­ively par­ti­cip­ate in a num­ber of social net­work­ing sites, then this move will help you. The abil­ity for exist­ing Face­book account hold­ers (such as your’s truely) to login with their Gmail or OpenID details don’t seem to be there yet, so the bene­fits of a shared login for such folk can’t be enjoyed as yet.

But will be in time, no doubt.

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