NEW YORK—SightNation.com, the first industry-wide social networking site for both ECPs and optical professionals, is now on Facebook and Twitter, as well as enabling citizens to login to the site using the Facebook Connect application.

Facebook Connect allows users to "connect" their Facebook identity, friends and privacy settings to SightNation so when a citizen posts a blog, comment or forum topic, it shares the content across both networks.

“Our citizens tend to be involved with a number of different social networking sites,” said Deirdre Carroll, one of two chief community officers for SightNation. “By setting up the SightNation Facebook and Twitter pages, as well as enabling them to sign in to the site with Facebook Connect, we are making it easier for them to integrate their social networking presences and facilitating their ability to keep all of their networks up-to-date at the same time.”

SightNation can be found on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/SightNation and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sightnation.

Launched on March 17, SightNation.com, has over 1,500 confirmed member profiles, or citizens. SightNation is a joint venture of all the JMI Optical Group resources, including Review of Optometry, Review of Ophthalmology, 20/20 Magazine, Vision Monday and LabTalk.