I joined Facebook recently

Unlike Hyves, Facebook is US based and in English only. It's today's most rapidly growing social network community.

Facebook is a global social utility that connects people from all over the world with friends and others who work, study and live around them.

Facebook is made up of many many networks, each based around a company, region, or school. You can join the networks that reflect your real-life communities.

Facebook's Platform enables anyone, anywhere, to build complete applications that you can choose to use. The possibilities are endless. Define your experience on Facebook by choosing applications that are useful and relevant to your world.

To learn more about Facebook before joining, take the Site Tour at http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/