Today we probably do a lot more virtual socialization. Communication technology allows us to keep close distance with our friends. But if you find neither email nor social network is good enough, here are two applications for you.

If you use Facebook a lot, you can install the Facebook Toolbar for Firefox. It gets you notified every time when a message is received. You can access almost all the FB features with a click on the browser’s toolbar without switching to the Facebook site.

If you want super convenience that goes beyond receiving notification, you can create a livestream for your friends. Check this new tool, a Guy Kawasaki advised venture, called “Spokeo.” What it does is to read through your email address book, or any email contact that you can supply, then creates a livestream for every email address.

Spokeo is a tool to track your friends. It tracks every footprint left by your friends in over 30 social network services from Amazon wish list to Flickr and practically everything that is in RSS feed. As long as those footprints are marked for public access, Spokeo will aggregate everything for you.

It sounds like a smart approach to track friends using email address book because it is always the threshold of our social network. But tracking your friends too close may run into a virtual surveillance. On the contrary, it doesn’t sound very friendly at all.

So if you want to keep a friendly distance from the people you know, you may want to revisit your privacy setting in various social networking sites. I have a handy advice for your privacy on Facebook. They’ve implemented a new feature just weeks ago that prohibits external websites sending stories to your profile. You should take note.

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