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An ideal Facebook would have been a directory of people and their connections. People can message each other, post text updates and pictures. This is pretty cl
by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
An ideal Facebook would have been a directory of people and their connections. People can message each other, post text updates and pictures.
This is pretty close to how I use facebook.
The problem is Sharing. It is the most fundamental feature of Facebook, and it’s completely broken
For me, the directory itself is most fundamental. If all of my friends switched to another social network, I would immediately switch.
I'm not sure what's failed? Maybe if he fleshed out a viable alternative?
It's important not to trivialize what they've accomplished just because its core feature now seems mundane.
- _pmf_ 13y ago> It's important not to trivialize what they've accomplished just because its core feature now seems mundane. The core feature is trivial; it has been implemented by hundreds of sites. Facebook's strength was its organic growth, which is slowing down the MySpaceification tremendously.
- pbhjpbhj 13y ago>Facebook's strength was its organic growth // You appear to be trivialising it by simply saying this as if just being their caused organic growth. FB not only provided the core ability to link people together but did so in a package that was/is accessible to a broad range of people in a non-threatening way. Several sites tried before, you mention MySpace, and never achieved the broad appeal FB did. Several have tried since - consider Google Wave. Or how about Google+, which hasn't failed yet, but has struggled it seems to make inroads in as broad a demographic as FB has. I like to malign FB probably more than the average person but their achievement is so easily downplayed without proper warrant.
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