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Your descriptions about Myspace and Facebook are post-hoc. It's easy once something grows big to retrospectively say {Service} let {certain people} do {somethin
by amirmc 12y ago
Your descriptions about Myspace and Facebook are post-hoc. It's easy once something grows big to retrospectively say {Service} let {certain people} do {something} in {some way} (e.g. I recall music being a thing for all my friends on Myspace). When something is small, it's not always clear how things will pan out or what direction they may take.
Misson statements are always vague in some sense. "Organise the world's information" was probably strange once upon a time.
- gk1 12y agoI think the benefit of FB was very clear from the beginning: Connect with people from your campus. I remember signing up for that exact reason, beginning of freshman year, after realizing that many other classmates were on it.
- amirmc 12y agoIndeed, and I recall there being only rudimentary profiles and I'm not even sure there was messaging functionality. You had to actively visit people's profiles to see what they were up to and had to follow conversations from wall to wall. We all signed up but we jokingly referred to it as Stalkerbook. In other words, it was nothing like it is today, where it has become a replacement for a bunch of existing things (e.g maintaing address books) and allowed a slew of new things (light touch contact, wider networks and news feeds).