Facebook Buying Plaxo

It seems that my last post is now merely hypothetical.  Facebook will be buying Plaxo and of course integrating their more powerful security and filtering features into the Facebook platform (not to mention you won’t have to get banned from Facebook to import your contacts into Plaxo.  Hopefully Zuckerberg didn’t take so much of a pounding during his 60 Minutes interview that Facebook will never IPO.

Although I rarely actually log on to Facebook, I do have it hooked into all my other social tools like Stumbleupon, Digg, Twitter and LinkedIn and I really like how it acts as a repository for all of my outgoing communication for “my network” to keep track of all that is going on.  I could personally do without all the MySpace-like features, daily gift, poke etc but overall it is the best social networking tool that can be used for legitimate purposes available today.  The addition of Plaxo’s features, if they can be integrated quickly and seamlessly, will quiet some of the nay sayers and improve the Facebook experience significantly.