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I saw Barack Obama being sworn in as the 44th President of the United States today on Facebook/CNN, with all my Facebook friends – and that was pretty interesting.

According to TechCrunch – Facebook’s Big Day: 1.5 Million Obama-Related Status Updates Via CNN

It may be Obama Day today, but it was definitely also Facebook Day – the company had its Facebook Connect service integrated nicely into the live CNN.com coverage of the inauguration. Facebook users could log into Facebook while watching the event, read comments from friends (or anyone) and leave their own.

I think the future of Social Neworking may well be in carrying your social network to almost any event you see online or any event your attending.   I connected to a few of my Facebook friends in the context of a live event that was happening – felt in some ways as if the Facebook Connect proxy was shorthand for speaking directly – and it may be, that in my mind’s eye, I was conduction a real time conversation with friends.

At least, I remember it that way, the substance of the conversations, that is.