# Friend Connect now available in beta to everyone

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Friday, December 05, 2008


If you've been looking for a way to grow traffic and make your site more interactive, check out
[Google Friend Connect](https://www.google.com/friendconnect/)
---now in beta and available to all webmasters. Remember that with Friend Connect, you can
easily add social features to your site by just copying and pasting a few snippets of code, no
programming necessary! Your visitors will be able to join your site, create or link to a profile,
interact with other visitors, and invite friends to visit your site. Best of all, your visitors
won't be required to create yet another username and password---Friend Connect lets them sign
in using an existing Google, Yahoo, AOL, or OpenID account. To learn more, watch the video below:

[Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N94s7ix0JPo)


So for any of you who were interested in Friend Connect
[after our first announcement](https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/friend-connected-web.html),
and also to all of the newer readers out there, go ahead and
[give Friend Connect a try](https://www.google.com/friendconnect/).

Written by Mendel Chuang, Product Marketing Manager