Facebook Adds a “Send” Button

Facebook today announced via its Facebook blog, a new social media feature known as the “Send” button. The button now allows a user to take information from the web (the example was an Orbitz.com vacation deal) and directly share the link to the members of a particular group. “As a Californian with a brother living in Peru and parents back in Wisconsin, we use our group to update each other about our lives, share vacation photos, and discuss where we’re going to meet up next,” explained Facebook engineer Elliot Lynde in the post. Over at Wired.com, Ryan Singel suggests that the ultimate goal seems to be to “increase the amount of content from outside the web flowing through Facebook, which, needless to say, locks users further into Facebook.” Read more at Wired.com.