Social Networking giant Facebook is again borrowing features from micro blogging service Twitter. A few months back Twitter introduced a nice handy feature called Hovercards, which saves users a few clicks by popping op an hovercard with certain options when hovering over a user’s name.

Facebook is always aiming to bring it users the best possible experience by introducing all sorts of new features, and it is no surprise to see them copying the handy hovercard feature from Twitter and introducing it on their site.

Facebook added the hovercard feature to their site which you can see by hovering your mouse over the name of friends or pages you like. Hovercards is a real handy feature one would just think that Facebook will introduce more options on the hovercards.

Currently hovercards on Facebook only have an option to message a user when you hover over their name, apart from that the hovercard also display mutual friends and how many people like a page when you hover over a page name.

Hovercards is the second feature Facebook has copied from micro blogging service Twitter, previously they also copied the @username mention feature. Would be interesting to see what other features Facebook plans to copy from Twitter just to stay ahead in the game now that there are rumors of Google planning a Facebook competitor.