Check out Allyson Kapin's post for using the newly released Facebook Places.

Facebook Places was just launched.  It's a geo-location services that competes with FourSquare, and lets you see where your friends are as well as share your own location.

Last week, Facebook announced they reached 500 million members. This milestone is even more amazing considering the growth of Facebook over the last few years. The social networking site reached 100 million members just two years ago. Since February of this year, 100 million more members have joined.

From time to time someone sends me an interesting article from Mashable. Mashable describes itself as,

First of all you should know that Google tweets. Yesterday, Google announced (via tweet) that they are going to integrate Facebook Page updates into their real-time searches.

Today I heard April Harrington speak on behalf of the Oklahoma Food Coop (OFC). She is currently a producer for the OFC as well as their treasurer. During the question and answer session she was asked how the internet impacts the OFC.

All forms of online communication are not the same and you should not treat them like they are. Yes, you can communicate with a person by sending an e-mail, an instant message, an @reply on Twitter, a Facebook message or hosting a webchat, but they are not equal. Think about how you talk with your various personal contacts on a daily basis’s.

It’s always exciting getting the emails that say you have a few Facebook friend request, a new Twitter follower, or a new LinkedIn request. In this case it’s important to remember that bigger networks are not always better.

So do you constantly hear people talking about social media?