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That worked so well for AOL when they were the "internet".
by sh1mmer 17y ago
That worked so well for AOL when they were the "internet".
- whatusername 17y agoExcept that facebook has a population already greater than "America". And AOL cost money to use - facebook is free. It doesn't stop you using other services/sites/etc -- you just don't need or want to.
- sunchild 17y ago"facebook has a population" Every time I hear this meme repeated, I get the (depressing) image of roughly 400,000,000 stub accounts that were created to check out FB, and promptly abandoned to gather dust.
- dsil 17y agoThe numbers they release are "monthly active users", ie people who logged in within the last 30 days, not stub accounts.
- arihant 17y agoI don't think so. Facebook only had 132M unique visitors in March, compared to 400M users they are believed to have. To say that 400M were active last 30 days, Facebook need to workaround the pigeonhole principle.
- varaon 17y agoPlease correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like AOL's strategy was very content-heavy - they tried to provide all the news, movies, etc. their users would need in order to keep to on AOL properties as much as possible. Users are much more tied into Facebook via their friends and private info.
- gabrielroth 17y agoAOL also did a lot with 'buddy lists' and offline friendships. They didn't have social networking figured out, but they definitely tried to own communication and relationships as well as content.