VoIP Offering A Social Network?

With all of the buzz about social networks like MySpace and Facebook, it's no wonder VoIP is introducing its applications to these websites. If you think about how many conversations are initated electronically vs. over the phone, by people using email and instant messaging, it is no wonder that many people think these social networks will replace those forms of communication altogether.

VoIP has plans to embed the voice features as an upgrade, starting with a Facebook voicemail application. And even though I'm not a huge fan of Vonage and other such Voice Over IP products because of the security issues discussed earlier in this blog, this is something for the social networking websites that has a lot of potential.

What do you think about this as an upgrade feature for Facebook? Is it a feature that you would use? You obviously can't do this with traditional telephone service. Maybe I'm old-fashioned but I still trust my landline the most. I get local telephone service for about $25 a month, and I get free long distance with PhoneHog.

I have yet to sign up with Facebook, but if my friends keep making fun of me, I might have to give it a try.