Facebook has recently launched Facebook Connect in their developer resources.  Facebook Connect allows a developer to:

* Seamlessly "connect" their Facebook account and information with your site
* Connect and find their friends who also use your site
* Share information and actions on your site with their friends on Facebook

This means that websites will now be able to integrate the Facebook login system into their own website, allowing you to carry your Facebook identity along with you as your travel around the internets.  Facebook may soon rule the net!  As a user surfs the web and interacts with different websites using their Facebook username, they can pass this info back to Facebook and share it with other friends in their community.

Similar ideas to this same concept are the competing OpenID, Google Friend Connect, and Windows Live ID.  But with the popularity of Facebook and the unfamiliarity with the competitors by the majority of the internet population, Facebook may just win this war (though I would never count Google out).  Facebook already has a built in user base of "130 million monthly active users" (really?), so they very well could crush the competition with their registration system.

According to Inside Facebook, Govit.com has reported that after adding Connect to its login system, users are choosing to login with Facebook 58% of the time.

But how good is it for one company to rule the internet in this way?  Will it be an issue if Facebook one day controls all login systems on the internet?  Privacy concerns must be addressed before Facebook can be truly declared the winner in this online battlefront.  The ideas that Facebook are trying implement are brilliant but at the same time, sort of "Big Brother" -ish scary.

What are your thoughts?

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