This is more proof that people can’t live without their social networks.

Facebook Connect was unveiled over the weekend at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. The audience comprised of software makers who began testing the new platform, “It opens up so many new opportunities, said Jim Myers who attended the panel talk.

The Facebook Connect application originally launched last year as a way to share social networking services from Facebook to other Web sites. Up to the present moment, there hasn’t been an application to bring Apple’s iPhone community into the Facebook realm. The new app can be used by mobile phones users to play games and other software, they would normally play from their home computer.

Now more than ever you can stay connected while using your Apple product.

Users can launch the application on an iPhone, select a photo by touching it, after which a print command is sent to the inkjet printer over a Wi-Fi network. The software also runs on the iPod Touch device.

Currently, the software enables only 4-by-6-inch (10-by-15-centimeter) photo prints and resizes images accordingly. The application is available for download from the App Store for free.

The only image format currently supported is JPEG.