Remember the first time you heard about Facebook? Putting your pictures, contact information and personal interests up online for all to see. Tagging. Poking. Sounded bizarre, voyeuristic even. But now, you can’t log off. You’re hooked.

Admit it.

Well RIM has introduced a whole new way to “book.” RIM, also known as Research in Motion, has teamed up with Facebook to give users of the popular social network service quicker access on their BlackBerry Smartphones.

Mike Lazaridis, the founder of Research In Motion, joined Facebook’s co-founder Dustin Moskovitz in San Francisco today to formally reveal Facebook for BlackBerry Smartphones.

“Facebook is one of the fastest growing web destinations among BlackBerry Smartphone users and it has become an important element in the evolving fabric of personal communications,” said Lazaridis in a statement.

“Facebook and RIM share a vision for enhanced mobile communications and social networking based on open, standards-based platforms and this has allowed us to produce a rich mobile application for Facebook users that leverages the push-based architecture, multimedia features and industry-leading usability of the BlackBerry solution.”






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