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The thing that really really shot facebook through the roof was its photo tagging interface. Being able to tag a friend and have your photo show up on their pro

• dbul 18y ago
  It was popular from the start. You cannot correlate any release of a feature to this subjective shooting through the roof to which you are referring. Or, if you can, I would be interested in seeing the data.
  • whatusername 18y ago
    I would be interested in the data - but anecdotally - the news feed (see copies from myspace, friendfeed, etc) and photo tagging were both brilliant pieces of product design.. The give you a reason to come back - often.
    • mediaman 17y ago
      The reason Facebook became so popular, initially, was its exclusivity. I remember being on campus when it first became big -- and at first it was an Ivy League social network created out of Harvard, and it created a sense of exclusivity among its members that sites like Friendster never had. A lot of people I knew were disgusted when it was released to the "state schools", because it diluted the value of their membership. The state schoolers then became upset when it was released to high schoolers, and so on.
      • grinich 17y ago
        Can its popularity really be attributed to that? I'm guessing that when it was reserved for Ivy League students, it has <50,000 users. When did they break a million? I'd also be very interested to see the actual metrics of growth, with milestone marks for new features. I'm going to guess that FB isn't too keen in releasing this data, though.