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I could never understand the appeal of Facebook. Social networks have been around forever, there is no breakthrough in the UI or anything. What exactly are they
by josephpmay 12y ago
I could never understand the appeal of Facebook. Social networks have been around forever, there is no breakthrough in the UI or anything. What exactly are they doing that warrants this kind of investment?
It's amazing how many startups you could insert there.
- sjg007 12y agothe network.
- enjo 12y agoYep, it used to drive me crazy. Everything looks easy and trivial after someone has actually done it well.
- ricardobeat 12y agoThat was not in jest. I really don't understand the value they are providing, likely because I'm outside their target audience. I can't help seeing it as mere fancy footnotes, while I could point a couple things Facebook had going for them.
- kunaalarya 12y agoreplied to another comment with this, but: - there's a large community aspect to it. large community of editors who analyze lyrics and discussions - strong reputation within the hip hop community, a ton of artists will describe what certain lyrics mean and what their inspiration was for the song. It's a big way for artists to connect to their fans and it's used by a lot - The preferred lyrics site for hip hop fans. Instead of searching through google and getting a top hit, people go to rapgenius and search. They're trying to be THE source for lyrics and annotations, not just a source you randomly find - they're trying to expand this to other genres (rock, poetry, literature, etc.). they've had some success but being so tied to rapgenius hurt them (rock.rapgenius.com before, rock.genius.com now)