Office 2013 In Depth

Accessing Contacts on Social Networks

Outlook 2013 makes it easy for you to expand your contact database by connecting to your social networking accounts. The Outlook Social Connector creates a link between social networking sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn and enables you to view and use the information available on these sites. For example, you can view an Outlook contact’s activities on Facebook by connecting to that person’s profile. If you have a LinkedIn account, you can access your LinkedIn contacts and send them emails without leaving Outlook.

The idea of connecting Outlook to a social networking site (or sites), even a business-oriented site such as LinkedIn, might make you a little squeamish because of security and privacy issues. ...