Docs for Facebook does offer a couple of options to expand its Facebook presence: You can add a specialized tab to the top of your profile, making all of your created documents accessible in a single location, and you can add a Docs bookmark onto your Facebook home page so you can access the app without having to search.

Generally speaking, Docs for Facebook is pleasant enough to use, though it did move a bit slowly during my tests. I also encountered a couple of errors while moving through the program, and the documents I shared on my Wall had an out-of-place-looking blank image where an icon should have been. With that said, the program is still in beta and is likely being bombarded with traffic right now, so these may or may not be long-term problems.

One can't help but wonder whether Docs for Facebook will be able to hold its own next to an established and widely used service like Google Docs. Personally, I suspect it could end up attracting a largely different audience; the type of people using Google Docs for business-based collaborations seem unlikely to port their projects over to a socially oriented service like Facebook, even if the offering does bear Microsoft's name. Businesses looking to use Microsoft Office online, one would imagine, would be more apt to veer toward the standalone .

Make no mistake about it: Docs for Facebook makes its target clear, and it certainly doesn't seem to be the business-based user. The service's , written by Microsoft FUSE Labs' Pat Kinsel, describes Docs as a "social-productivity experience" and indirectly addresses the obvious Google Docs comparisons.