Online social networking has overridden normal social life of Internet users. It is now a routine work executed by Internet users whenever they launch their web browser. It is also being used for business promotion and interaction with customers. Many 3rd party tools have emerged to make interaction with theses social services more flexible and convenient when compared to their default interface. We are going to provide a list of Google chrome extensions (3rd Party Tools) which will make your social experience more pleasant.
Google Chrome Extensions for Facebook 
Facebook for Google Chrome
This extension implements a new design to interact with Facebook in Google Chrome. Besides, it uses Facebook connect to get updates about wall, status updates, and messages. The notification mechanism also has a Sound design.
Beautify Facebook
If you are tired of default Facebook look, try this extension in Google Chrome to bring some change. This extension improves the appearance by adding a gradient background, rounded corners, shadows, emoticon for chat, and many more. It makes possible some navigation in Facebook using Keyboard shortcuts.
Facebook Photo Zoom
Pictures in Facebook albums are shown as thumbnails and to view the image user needs to open separately. This extension displays a large preview image whenever user hovers mouse over an image. The same happens with profile pictures and you don’t need to open friend’s profile for seeing the display picture. The feature can be easily toggled on or off with Ctrl+Shift+Z.
Facebook Fixer
This is actually a greasemonkey script which has been ported as Google Chrome extension. It provides lot of customizations for Facebook like bigger album and profile pictures, keyboard shortcuts, homepage customization and many more.
Friends Mural for Facebook
It is another novel to get updates from all friends and as well as for selected friends. Friends can be added to a wall in the extension’s pop up and all the updates about specific friends can be seen individually.
Facebook Simple Notes
This extension for Google Chrome turns the clumsy notification area of Facebook into a fancy one by organizing related notifications into groups. The notifications related to same topic like picture, status, post, and application are categorized.
Google Chrome Extensions for Twitter 
Chromed Bird
It is a nice replacement of desktop client to utilize Twitter while browsing in Google Chrome. It has lot of features like tweeting, get notifications, monitor custom search queries, preview image links, follow time lines, creating short urls, and many more.
Chrowety
This can also work as alternative of desktop client for Twitter right in your web browser. You can save drafts for updates and replies, follow lists, change twitter API, have an eye on time lines, browse user profiles, and many more.
Other Google Chrome Extensions for Social Networking/News 
Shareaholic for Google Chrome
An awesome extension to share content across the web with a simple click which supports all social services like Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Stumble Upon, and Digg, Email services like Gmail, Google Apps mail, and Yahoo, IM services and many more. It is possible to select services of your choice and make them launch through keyboard shortcuts.
Orkut Chrome Extension
It provides a smart way to get scrap notification, find a friend’s page, and share content on Orkut. You will be no longer needed to refresh or stay permanently on Orkut’s page to remain updated.
Delicious Tools
A simple way to save bookmarks in Delicious account is provided by this extension. The user is also able to assign a keyboard shortcut for easy access.
StumbleUpon
If you are an avid user of Stumble Upon, this is the only extension available in Google Chrome. It is a bit messy due to some restrictions in Chrome API. Therefore, it is not a perfect alternative for counterpart supported in Firefox.
Digg for Chrome
You can utilize this extension to make your interaction with Digg more convenient. It can tell you whether a webpage has been submitted to Digg by showing Display Count. You can easily share and find new content.
AutoPager Chrome
You will no longer be required to make a click for viewing next page. The extension loads the next page automatically when you reach at the end of a page on many websites like Google, Twitter, You Tube, Flickr, and many more.
Add to Amazon Wish List
Adding item to Amazon wish list has been made much simpler by this extension. You can add the item with a single click. The process is very straight.
Social Graph Analyzer
If a user has created profiles on different services like Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, or on other with same user name, this extension will help you find other profiles while you are on page of one of the profiles
StayFocusd
It is an application to enhance your productivity which is usually lost while browsing web and making online social interactions on Facebook, Twitter, and etc. You can configure it in multiple ways to block specified pages when a time limit is reached. So that you will get on Work rather than wasting more time and lose your rankings.
These chrome extensions will improve your productivity as well as a charming dealing with popular service like Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Orkut, Stumble Upon, Delicious, and others.
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Chrome is improving very fast and gaining new market share so these are very useful tips.
wow, incredible tips, but I’m an Ubuntu user, I have to wait until this google product available for linux.
I moved from IE to FF and then eventually to Chrome which I believe to be the best available at the moment