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In my opinion they are mocked because they have not introduced any groundbreaking features. They have a lot of cool features that can be found elsewhere. They
by kwamenum86 18y ago
In my opinion they are mocked because they have not introduced any groundbreaking features. They have a lot of cool features that can be found elsewhere. They are recreating what others have tried but doing it better.
Their accomplishments are execution (making a lot of features work together without crappifying the site) and scale. This is still remarkable but it does not help you avoid mocking.
- unalone 18y agoI think that their privacy implementation was the first of its kind. That was the first site that I joined that didn't give me a URL. It was all about being a closed system, and I loved that and still do. I'd also say that their ridiculous emphasis on minimalism should count as groundbreaking, because no other site gets that right, but that always leads to arguments.
- kwamenum86 18y agoI don't think you can call it groundbreaking if someone else is already doing it (I am taking the word at its most literal I guess i.e. breaking new ground). Their privacy system is similar to MySpace's except they apply it to more things. MySpace had a system that allowed you to restrict certain things from non-friends before Facebook. Facebook's privacy system has become much more robust though.
- unalone 18y agoI think the breaking ground was that Facebook's primary feature was security. MySpace had it, but they didn't emphasize it, and even when security was on, they tried to make profiles display like public pages - they just made them sparser. Facebook introduced the completely blank page that you get when you try to go to a restricted profile. It was pretty cutting edge when I registered in 2005-06.