mark-zuckerberg-mar-3-2011-3-600Just last week, Google launched its new social media platform, Google+, with a host of enhanced features, including video chat. So, it was no surprise when days later Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased that he was about to unveil “something awesome.”

Yesterday, Facebook announced that through a new partnership with Skype, users will be able to video chat for free directly through Facebook. Now, the leader in social media has created a new way for its 750 million users to stay connected. According to its official blog, Facebook has added other expanded features to the already convenient chat interface. Not only will you be able to video chat your friends using the new Skype enhancement, but you will also have the ability to create group chats with multiple friends

The Daily Beast reports that Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz used to rant against something he calls “representational identity”—associating people with numbers.  For example, keeping track of someone’s home number, cell number, work number, Skype address, email address, IM account, Twitter name, and all the other numbers.

According to The Daily Beast,  the next move for the Skype-Facebook partnership will be to enable you to dial any offline phone number from inside Facebook. This again will make unnecessary the downloads of Skype software and setting up of accounts, which has been required up to now and which surely deterred many millions from trying this useful service.