Outlook.com is the new Hotmail and the team have been leaving no stone upturned to get on with it. They have done an AMA on Reddit which we have already covered here. There is a lot of news on the internet regarding the service and it seems they have learned a lot of lessons from other services and launched this new email App which works amazingly. They did however make of ads in Gmail when you login to Outlook.com however they also have ads on the right sidebar.
If you have decided to try the service one of the things you notice is that you can connect you Social Networks to the service and get everything you love in one place. Outlook.com seeks to work like a one-stop-social-network-shop, used the word shop there to use the age-old adage in a fun way. Anyways once you login to Outlook.com you can easily connect your Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and Flickr accounts to the service. Once connected you get all your favorite social networks in one place and you can start interacting from right within Outlook.com
How to add or connect social networks to Outlook.com
1. Login to Outlook.com
2. Click on the upside down smiley face on the top-right-hand corner
3. At the bottom you see 'Add' click on that
4. Now select the service you want to add - go through the authentication steps.
5. You're done