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Exactly, and Facebook knows this. Real change will take competition, and competition will take years to grow.

• res0nat0r 16y ago
  They know they are getting a lot of flack for it, but really? I actually like having these fine grained settings, I don't let any of my coworkers see any of my pics or status updates, it is extremely nice being able to set such fine tuned views. Don't complain about your privacy when you don't understand how to setup your account imo.Also this is like amazon, does anyone actually shop at bn.com? Amazon was there first and still the best, a 2nd site to this arena just ain't gonna ever come close to the same user base.
  • nitrogen 16y ago
    Those fine-grained settings are nice, but Facebook appears to be slowly eliminating them one by one. Originally it was possible to control who saw your work and education info, now it's public only. By the way, Facebook is the second major entrant in this space (the first being MySpace). It's almost always possible for someone new to take a big chunk of a market, given enough time and resources. See Firefox+Chrome+Safari+Opera vs IE as an example.
    • jteo 16y ago
      Anyone remember friendster? ... My point exactly.
    • skinnymuch 16y ago
      How is Friendster not the first? Friendster > Myspace > Facebook, each got a ton bigger than the previous one.