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Just when we thought Facebook couldn’t impact our lives anymore, it found another way.

An Israeli couple has named their baby Like, after the Like button on Facebook. We’ve heard some unique names in our time, but this one is a bit silly. The couple claims they thought the name sounded “modern and innovative.”

Facebook did not pay the couple, obviously, but this incident shows how large a role social media play in our lives. Next thing you know, parents will start naming their children, Facebook. Wait, that actually happened earlier this year!  A man in Egypt named his daughter Facebook to express “his joy at the achievements made by the January 25 youth.”

Now we turn to our community. What do you think of these names? What’s the most unusual name you’ve ever heard of?

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Currently, as a pre-requisite to participate on Yahoo! Answers, we ask that you have a Yahoo! ID to sign-in to the Yahoo! network.  This in turn is where your identity on both Yahoo! and Answers is managed from.

Now, as part of Yahoo’s moves to make the web a more social and open place we are opening up Answers to people with Google or Facebook IDs too.

We appreciate people don’t want to be overwhelmed by different logins for each site you want to participate in on the web and through a technology called OpenID we’re able to eliminate the need for multiple logins across different Web sites.

After you sign-in with your Google or Facebook ID you’ll be able to fully participate on Yahoo! Answers.

Check out this video to see how easy it is to sign-in with a Google or Facebook ID:

A few points to note:

• For existing Answers members you’ll still see all of your existing content when you login with your Yahoo! ID.  However you also have the option to `bind` your Facebook/Gmail account with your Yahoo! account.  If you choose to do this you’ll be able to see all of your Answers content when logged in with either your Gmail or Facebook account.  Read this help page to find out how to do this.*
• If you sign in with your Facebook ID you still control what is published to your Facebook feed from Answers through the checkbox on the ask/answer flow.  Your activity on Answers will not automatically be published on your Facebook feed.
• OpenID isn’t available for the Mobile version of Answers just yet… we’re working on it though and we expect to make it available in the coming months.
• All participants using Google or Facebook IDs will still be subject to our Yahoo! ToS and Answers Community Guidelines when contributing to the site.

For further information on Yahoo! Fast Pass check out the Yodel Anecdotal blog post: http://ycorpblog.com/2011/01/18/id-sign-in/

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Following our cool new Yahoo! Answers feature that will allow you to share your Answers content with your Facebook friends, it was only logical to continue collaborating in other social media sites and share the best of the best of Answers.  Check out how you can follow, like and continue connecting with us through Facebook and Twitter!

FACEBOOK

Be a fan of our official Facebook fan page!  To join our friends on Facebook, you just need to follow these steps:

1. Log in or sign up on Facebook.
2. Go on our Facebook fan page.
3. Once you’re on the official fan page, just click on the button “I like” available at the top to become one of our fans
4. Well done, you’re now one of our Facebook friends!

Another way of adding us is to look for “Yahoo! Philippines Answers” in the search bar, then click on the link to go directly to our fan page.

We look forward to sharing great content and chatting with you in the fan page.  Watch out for the latest blog updates, open and resolved questions from the team, partners and even some from the community.  Check out the page regularly because we have some really cool surprises that we’ll be announcing in the fan page so watch out for it!

TWITTER

Aside from Facebook, if you’re a Tweep then you definitely have to follow us on Twitter!  Our Twitter account is http://twitter.com/YahooAnswersPH.

We tweet a lot of the good stuff you find on Answers (blog updates, cool, quirky and always interesting questions and answers) and we encourage you to retweet any of our tweets that you think your followers would like to know as well.

Once you’ve followed, liked and connected with us in Facebook and Twitter, please feel free to tell your friends about it.  And don’t forget to share your thoughts about it below in the comments.  Thanks!

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Starting today (Thursday), you will notice a cool new Yahoo! Answers feature that will allow you to share your Answers content with your Facebook friends! This means your friends on Facebook can now help you answer your questions if you choose to share them. Your Facebook friends can also join Yahoo! Answers and connect with our amazing community to have the many questions they have answered.

What are the benefits?

One of the many advantages of social networking sites is having the ability to connect with thousands of people.   Linking your Answers account with your Facebook account increases the number of people that can answer your questions!  Some of the benefits are:

1. Make it easier for your non-Answers friends to answer your questions if you choose to share them beyond Answers.

2. If you choose to share your great answers with your Facebook friends too then they will see your answers right at the top of the list when coming to Answers from Facebook.

Control options:

On the `Preview` page you’ll see the check-boxes for where you want to share your questions and answers to.  The setting you choose here will be the default for all of your content but you have the option to change this with every posting.  This gives you full control over which info you want to share with your friends and those questions you want to ask only to the Answers community.

Things to keep in mind:

If you do decide to share your Answers activity with your friends on Facebook, keep in mind that your Answers screen name will be visible.  Your Answers activity will be associated with your Facebook identity and vice versa, which means your Facebook friends will be able to see all your Answers activity (including past activity).   If your friends on Facebook ‘like’ your question, their contacts will be able to see this activity too.

Remember, more visibility to your questions means more answers from a wider range of contacts so we hope you will find the new Facebook integration a useful addition to your Answers experience!

Once you have started sharing your Answers and Facebook accounts, “tell us what you think” on the Forum or leave your comments here, on the blog.

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