People are predicting that social networking sites such as Facebook will become obsolete in the future. Some boasts about their preference to have real world friends rather than virtual friends.

I can’t speak authoritatively about Twitter as I am still exploring the world of Twitter mania. However, I have been using Facebook for over a year and a half now, and quite frankly it’s hard to imagine life without it.

As I mentioned before in a previous post, I only use Facebook for my personal lifestyle and close friends, while Twitter is used solely for business. It is just unwise to mix business and personal life in such a way unless you are an entertainer or something of that sort.

Living here in London, you get to meet a lot of people who are just “passing through”. They are here today and gone tomorrow. Some are just taking a quick vacation, while some are on something like a working holiday visa, where they work for a year, travel for another, then return home.

You meet terrific people who will impact your life. Whether they go back to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Sweden, Norway, America, etc., there is no better way to keep in touch than with Facebook.

With Facebook you can chat, send emails, share photos, share your status (news feed) and even connect with people that you thought you would never hear from again.

For me, two of the most useful tools that Facebook has are the “Events” and “Birthday” functions. A true friend never forgets your birthday, but that only works if one only has 5 friends. How do you keep track of hundreds of friends?

Facebook does a marvellous job in reminding me to wish people happy birthday. Sometimes writing “Happy Birthday” on someone’s Facebook wall can have more meaning and be more practical than sending them a text or birthday card through the mail.

With Facebook, I can cherry-pick which parties to go to. Every week someone is either having a birthday party, a leaving do, launching a business, having an after-party, celebrating the birth of a baby, or just gathering to have some good times.

When someone invites me to a party in person, I normally ask, “Is it on Facebook?” I am sure to remember the party if it is on Facebook. Plus I can get the details and directions from one source.

I could go on and on about how useful Facebook is to my personal life.

But how useful would Facebook be to my business life?

I don’t know. This is what I’m now setting out to find out.

Facebook states that user profiles should be connected to and be about an individual. Facebook has introduced “Pages” that can serve the social networking needs of businesses.

We have now created a Facebook Page for eBusinessDomains.com.

Quite a few major corporations have Facebook pages. There are even pages for politicians, musicians, actors, athletes, and anyone who is well known or is trying to get known. We are trying to get known here .

The “Pages” function a bit differently from profiles, in that everyone can access and view the information on your pages. With your user profiles (personal), you can limit the amount of information that is seen by anyone, including your friends.

Facebook, like Twitter is another way that companies can connect with their customers on a personal level.

I will keep you posted with our Facebook progress.

For now, the best way to stay in touch is to become one of our Facebook fans.

Click here to visit the eBusinessDomains.com Facebook Page.

Please don’t forget to follow us on Twitter as well.