Clearly, there are a lot of things happening lately on Facebook. After earlier this month, the social-networking sites outraged the privacy advocates by unveiling a new ad system that tracks the activity of its users on the third-party websites, yesterday Facebook has ventured into a new territory: politics.

As the primary and national elections are less than a year away, Facebook teamed up with ABC News in order to offer to its users an new interactive political forum and new ways to debate and discuss about their political favorites.

Facebook and ABC News have created a new virtual space called “U.S Politics”, which is a combination of Facebook’s technology with ABC News’ political coverage.

"We thought it would be a great opportunity for us to make available to the people already having the ongoing discussion and debate on Facebook the full range of ABC News political reporting," said David Westin, president of ABC News.

According to ABC News, the political reporters will post news, photos and articles directly in the U.S. Politics group and a section called Debate Groups will allow Facebook members to express their opinions about the candidates and the political issues.

"The goal is to extend the debate from being a one-hour session that happens on television to a dialogue that can take place before, after and now during the debate with voters," said a statement issued by Dan Rose, a vice president of business development at Facebook.

It remains to be seen how many of the 56 million users of Facebook will be interested to engage into political debates, as so far a support group created for Barrack Obama has gathered 164,000 members.

Nevertheless for Facebook, the partnership could be beneficial as the company will extend its content and maybe will learn new things about the interests of its members.

Facebook was created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard drop-out, and initially it was an instrument to keep college students in touch and bring them closer. In this moment the social networking site accounts for 1 percent of the whole internet traffic.