Been there done that. I spent over a year to create something that was supposed to be better than facebook. It took that long, because whenever I believed i had

Been there done that. I spent over a year to create something that was supposed to be better than facebook. It took that long, because whenever I believed i had an idea that topped facebook- they went ahead and bought out another startup that offered the exact feature you were going to offer on your site. So you think of something new, and pretty soon, your site becomes as bloated as what facebook is now. Like many posters, Facebook isn't "technologically revolutionary" - it simply went along with the flow and had the right people at the right time. The reason why my social networking site failed was because users don't find another reason to jump ship from facebook to yours. All your close friends would definitely go and invite people, but there's a limit to how far people go to collect users for you before it's considered spam. The top response I got was " Oh another social networking site?"