Facebook acquires social networking site Hot Potato

Facebook is the number one social networking in the world. Facebook is going great even in the countries like India and Brazil where you normally see Google’s Orkut leading the race. In past few months, Facebook has made several aggressive strategic marketing moves. Facebook bought many small and well established social networking sites. Freshly, Facebook has now bought one more social networking website hotpotato.com

Hot Potato is a cool and unique social networking site. Hot Potato connects the people who are doing same thing at a given time. When people visit their Hot Potato page, they share their status like ‘I’m going to a film’, or ‘I’m listening to a song’. Hot Potato then finds the other people with similar status and joins them as a friends group, where they can share opinions, pictures and videos.

Hot Potato has stopped the new signups, and it has decided not to share the existing user data to Facebook. Means, your information would no longer be available on HotPotato. Hot Potato has given a good one month time for the existing users to download and save any of the date they would like to save.

Hot Potato officially confirmed this news in their official blog. On the other hand, there is no information about the purchase price.