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IMO Facebook has three useful features left: the personal rolodex, event planning, and groups. I truly think that a large number of users would migrate over if
by adjkant 8y ago
IMO Facebook has three useful features left: the personal rolodex, event planning, and groups. I truly think that a large number of users would migrate over if someone replicated those three. No large info collection on your profile, no wall or posts, just a friend/messaging option, the ability to create events, and to organize into groups made by users to make posts there only, not in public. You know, to actually make and support communities that would actual exist in physical space.
With the troubles of Facebook and the alternatives, many just don't use Facebook anymore, even if those features aren't broken. If it's a fresh service with no ties to Facebook, I think you'd see something interesting.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoGroups is really the only thing I use it for anymore. The rest of its 'features' have become more and more useless.
- labster 8y agoThose were the same three features that were a core part of thefacebook before they introduced the News Feed. If it was the same site that it was in 2005, but with more people, I'd still be using it. But now, it's mainly a machine that turns other people's content into dollars.
- taurath 8y agoIf the news feed was status updates only, no links, no news, no pics, it’d be decent.
- bcherny 8y agoGroups was launched in ‘08, I think.
- labster 8y agoNot possible. One of the things I did in the week after the News Feed was launched was to join a rather large (for 2006) group protesting the News Feed.