Dropbox begins to integrate Facebook to build social cloud services

Cloud storage services Dropbox announced on Twitter in Monday that Dropbox has supported direct sharing of files to your http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/1560.html ">facebook friends."

To get started with this new feature, users simply connect their Facebook accounts on the Dropbox Settings page. When you share a folder with a friend, you just type the name of the buddy on Facebook in the invitation bar, and Dropbox automatically fills you in automatically without having to type your buddy's dropbox username or lengthy email address.

Although Dropbox's improvement is modest, Dropbox's sense of integrating Facebook is not trivial.

Dropbox has always been a personalized and specialized tool, but with Facebook, Dropbox will open up a new area of social file sharing. With Facebook as a social platform, it's easier to share files with friends through Dropbox. Traditional Peer-to-peer file-sharing tools may be dead.

In February, Dropbox acquired cove--, a company dedicated to resolving SME Office collaboration and communication. Since peer relationships are an important part of Facebook's relationship, integration with Facebook also means that Dropbox will make a difference in office space.

At the same time, people can socialize on Dropbox. In the past, users often posted Facebook after discovering an interesting photo. Now, people can directly create a folder in Dropbox to share to specific friends, when the discovery of new interesting things (such as photos) can be dragged directly to the folder, and friends can be seen directly after. With the deep integration of Dropbox and Facebook, Dropbox may even change the way people interact on Facebook, making people more reliant on Dropbox.

Although Dropbox already has 45 million users, it faces many challenges: Apple has launched icloud services to integrate its eco-chain, Amazon provides a convenient cloud computing solution, Google's gdrive is also apparent, Box and SugarSync equivalents also share the market for cloud storage services.

Dropbox how to break through this cloud war? By joining Facebook's existing social relationships, Dropbox has moved ahead with a new social cloud service company.

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