Finally, a social networking site that understands syndicated content. A friend of mine pointed out that you could now import your blog entries right into Facebook, which is something we’ve been wanting social networking sites to do for about a year now. Now, new blog entries I post here will show up in my Facebook profile under notes. This makes sense, because I already blog to this site, and now, people can get that same content syndicated to my profile.

Social networking sites have been reluctant to do something like this because they don’t want to encourage activity off site. This is wrong. People do in fact do things on the Internet on other sites, so having a way to interlink that content is a good idea [tm]. Another friend of mine syndicated his site into his MySpace profile, but there’s nothing automated to do this yet. RSS is not new. It’s designed for syndication. So, aside from blog readers, why is there a dearth of good implementations of syndication cross-site? It’s not like enabling this functionality will cause people to go in droves to set up their own blogs. Chances are, it’ll provide more dynamic content to the profiles of those who already blog on other sites, making those profile pages just that much more interesting.

So kudos to Facebook for understanding syndicated content. Let’s hope the other social networking sites follow suit.