Neat Facebook app from Vodafone

VODAFONE IS beta testing a Facebook app, Vodafone Connect to Friends, which enables members of this social network to send picture messages and texts to their friends from within their Facebook pages.

The picture messaging side to this application only went live this month [September 2008] and the INQ has managed to prove that it really does work across different networks.

The INQ sent an MMS (picture message) to a handset on 3 UK's network which is the equivalent of sending an MMS from the oldest to the newest mobile operator.

The app is still very much in its infancy. Finding it proved hard enough but Facebookers should try going here to take advantage of the service which provides 25 free credits to those who manage to sign up in time.

A text message consumes one credit and an MMS (picture message) burns up three. After that you have to pay – which is presumably easiest for those on Vodafone contracts.

The idea is good because not everyone has joined the same social network and everybody doesn't have a computer but almost everyone has a mobile phone.

And the app will accidentally generate loads of MMS traffic for Vodafone once the company has got everybody nicely hooked on it.

Incidentally, once you've subscribed to Connect to Friends it currently doesn't show up in your installed Facebook apps. Instead you should bookmark the page and then access it from your browser's bookmarks. µ