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- pinsomniac, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20"if some never went to college they will not be on facebook"
Have you followed *any* news regarding Facebook over the past month or so? The reason they've received so much press is precisely because they've opened up registration to the general public. - Roger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10He's just jealous of youtube.
- Aikinai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8This is part of what I posted on another recent Facebook story and I'm copying it here because it seems like a ton of people still have no idea what Facebook is about but think they do:
I don't think people who aren't in college (or weren't in time for the Facebook craze) will ever understand it. Facebook isn't a place where you sign up and start "social networking." Facebook is for people who already have plenty of friends to keep track of everyone in their various networks. In the beginning some people thought it was like any social website where lonely people sign up and try to meet people. I remember when it was new some friends saying they didn't care to meet anyone online. But it wasn't long before everyone was signed up and people realized you don't use it to meet people. When you meet a new person in real life, you go friend them later.
Zuckerberg knew exactly what he was doing and that's why Facebook succeeded where everything else failed. Facebook is heavily grounded in real-life relationships and networks, so it will never go stale. You can't just sign on in a vacuum and expect for it to be social for you. Most of those stupid groups you see aren't meant to actually be communities; they're just for the novelty of being labeled as a member of something like, "I Just Tried to Ford the River and My *****' Oxen Died." (which you also probably won't get if you're too old for Facebook). The groups that are actually active communities are, like everything else, from real life, like clubs, teams, or study-abroad groups.
And now there's the group of people who've graduated and Facebok is what classmates.com always wanted to be, a way to keep up with all your high school and college friends after you scatter about the country and make your lives. With its monopoly on the constantly refreshing college market, Facebook will always be on top as long as it's not sold out and ruined by other people who don't get it. - thegreyfox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10day late. buck short.
- artgon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5You're a moron.
- MicroBerto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Dead on Aikinai.
What makes Facebook so great for me (graduated June 2005) is that I can keep track of the "auxilary" friends and characters from school. I of course know what is going on with my closest group of 15 friends -- its the friends of friends and people that I partied with on a less frequent basis that it's great to keep in touch with.
And now I know that if I go to somewhere like Washington DC (i live in texas now but travel a good bit), I might not have any great friends, but there's some that are close enough for at least a dinner or something.
That's why I like the facebook. The auxilary characters. - alecm3, on 10/12/2007, -13/+16Unlike Youtube, Facebook is not going anywhere. It's a current fad among a niche fickle audience, without providing anything new of any value. It will have the same destiny as Friendster.
- gerriediaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3the college lifestyle will keep it in business
- ekim2484, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don’t understand all of you who bitch and moan about Mark being a "sell out" he's a smart guy, a business man and someone who had a great idea and took his product to the next level. If facebook does sell, then good for him he’s set for life, if not then that’s great too they will still make money and provide a valuable service for communities all over the US. Either way none of us are making any decisions so sit back, learn something and enjoy.
- Derfus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3facebook is trendy with college kids but it is getting stomped on by myspace. it isnt worth anywhere near 1 billion.
what a joke, dont you all love the internet bubble v 2.0? - ZeonZumDeikun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Facebook is easily worth a billion. A company like Yahoo or pereferably Google could turn it into a profit machine, and it can be combined with either Google or Yahoo's already existing blogging/social networking services. Either one can give it one major existing feature to integrate it with, such as Flickr's social photo sharing and uploading (Owned by Yahoo), del.icio.us with social bookmarking and link sharing (Also owned by Yahoo), and YouTube's video uploading and sharing (Now owned by Google).
I would prefer Goolge over Yahoo in this case because of Google's great job with integrating it's services without Yahoo's overcomplicated interfaces and annoying ads. Although new features for Flickr and del.icio.us would be awesome for Facebook, as well as integration with Yahoo's messenger and countless other services, I believe Google would take better care of Facebook. Yahoo is more likely to buy it, and is already looking into it, but I doubt they will do as good of a job with it as Google would.
Just as long as NewsCorp doesn't get their hands on it. - rtbenson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1$1 Billion / 10 million members = $100 per member
- keikun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2definately not worth a billion. it's worth something though, just not a billion for sure. it's probably depreciated in value in the last month.
- smackthat, on 03/04/2009, -0/+0ROFL that's way too expensive
- fatalfury, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3This same article was on the front page very recently http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Why_Facebook_matters
- phlux, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4Need to be careful about Facebook. Reading between the lines on the open letter to Mark Zuckerberg from the head of common room, it appears that Zuckerberg really stole facebook as a seed of an idea from this guy.
I would say that Zuckerberg's intentions are far from pure. While we all know that starting a company comes with the potential for enourmous financial windfall and glory - in this case, it feels like this is the *only* thing this guy is after.
I heard an interview with him on NPR - and while the words he said were not along these lines, its the feeling that he conveys to me that makes me not trust anything about him.
http://www.aarongreenspan.com/letter/index.html
(I am a user of neither Facebook nor Common Room) - fieldgoal, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3in a word: no
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4well youtube's worth 1.65 billion
- raptordrew, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3Mark Zuckerburg can suck my left testicle. His selllout tendencies have destroyed what was a nice, balanced college networking website; now, I don't even use it because I'm disgusted at the stuff that has been added. Go to hell, Mark.
- Casedot, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2i agree. I use it and it doesn't do anything cool except let you keep in touch with old friends from school, but if some never went to college they will not be on facebook. It is too specialized for it to last IMO.
- jonathono2000, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0I was under the impression that facebook was the first site of its kind ie myspace, friendster, etc am I wrong?
Well at least they are still a buck short.
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