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> 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 implemen
by _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.