Dropbox syncs over a LAN if available and the long sync time is only for initialization. When I get a new computer, I'll just make sure to have the old computer

Dropbox syncs over a LAN if available and the long sync time is only for initialization. When I get a new computer, I'll just make sure to have the old computer there. This is part of the process of getting a new one already, but people need to move stuff over manually sometimes. As far as what you can do today with facebook, if you download the beta builds from the forums you can get access to a new sharing model. You can publish links of files to facebook & twitter. This page will change a lot when we launch this properly, but you can see what i mean: https://www.dropbox.com/s/owdlzphfhiw2ao4/koalabox.PNG https://www.dropbox.com/s/owdlzphfhiw2ao4/koalabox.PNG Facebook and twitter are great for sharing, so it makes sense for Dropbox to leverage them when people want to share files. Photos is a good example application where sharing often means pushing to a social network.