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Re: Why Facebook, why now?

jobsincardiff — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:56:03 -0000

Having a business contact as a friend allows people to develop another area of trust in my opinion, something crucial if you are working together.

Re: Why Facebook, why now?

MySpace Application Developer — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:31:18 -0000

Interesting. People do business with people. The more we know about them, the closer we become.

Re: Why Facebook, why now?

facebook applications — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:32:02 -0000

“At first we were worried about MySpace, but then we realized that people use it differently from our site,” an employee at social network Facebook told me over a year ago

Re: Why Facebook, why now?

faisallatif — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:46:22 -0000

Now facebook ! because now facebook turned as a huge business hub for application developers.
http://www.facebookguru.com

Re: Why Facebook, why now?

ablackanimal — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:34:06 -0000

If you are tired of facebook but want a way to connect with artists and musicians then you should check out www.putiton.com

If you are tired of facebook but still want to connect with your friends then pick up the phone...

Re: Why Facebook, why now?

joannedavison — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:22:03 -0000

i carnt belive facebook have blocked me sending messages as i typed too fast did not swear on it at all just wonderd if anyone knows how to get them back on if so email me

Re: Why Facebook, why now?

Robert falco — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:30:01 -0000

why facebook? why not bebo.. bebo is also performing well
:)

Re: Why Facebook, why now?

Facebook Applications — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:35:47 -0000

Nice and informative post about facebook.

Re: Why Facebook, why now?

Brad Phillips — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:32:01 -0000

I think the most important point is that sometimes we don’t want every network to know everything. I might want to delete my info from one network but not another. And, just like you suggested, I use a different email address for every site I join. Any sort of data propagation between networks would have to be entirely optional.

Re: Why Facebook, why now?

gbenga — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:20:29 -0000

hello there......how is thing hope is been fine there well i saw this then i would like to know more about it then if u wouldnt to let me know what is all about it then......then do u know one thing is that how do u want me to go about it here with me so that i could know what to do about it.....i just want to let u tell me better....so that....what to use it for would be send to me here......from there.....i believe that it has a good reason here with me tell me more about it then have a nice day over there with you till then am cool here with me.....seeing it soon i mean your message been send to me here ohhh

thanks,

gbenga.

Re: Why Facebook, why now?

Ariel Di Stefano — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:16:41 -0000

It's really interesting that 2 months later from this post, when I tried to add you as friend,the FB response was: "Robert Scoble already has too many friends."

Best Regards Robert!!!

Ariel

Re: Why Facebook, why now?

Milt Martin — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:42:28 -0000

The type of advertising that you prefer (instead of Facebook) is similar to the "E-Billboards" offered on InPratt.com. A Member (i.e. Profile) can sell (and build) up to 5 small ads that appear at the end of each blog (story), that he/she posts. The Member also sets the price of the E-Billboards (although any income is shared with the hosting entity on 80/20 basis).
Note that our conservative midwest community has been slow to adopt online Business practices, but we still have some hope that eventually they will "get it".

Re: Why Facebook, why now?

Abdul Jaleel — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:15:30 -0000

http://adnomics.org/2007/07...

Re: Why Facebook, why now?

Jesper Laugesen — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 04:04:54 -0000

@ comment no. 6 (myself): I guess I owe to facebook to say that I got in now. It took some time, but I'm in. Donnu if I like it yet, though ;)

Re: Why Facebook, why now?

Americo — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:27:56 -0000

Networking, Business, CRM...

This is not what drew audiences to Facebook & why it has grown. I have seen its rise, used its advertising for parties, and been on it for about a year. It was great because of friends. When it becomes more of a business tool, kids/grown adults will abandon it like nothing. Something else will come along.

The Marketers have screwed MySpace to some extent and now that will happen with Facebook. It was a lot cooler when only .edu address could be on and everyone was verified and there b/c they went to college at some point and wanted to connect with people. This is not the case anymore. The open API will give it a surge, but after the business driven community moves in, the human community will move out.

Re: Why Facebook, why now?

LayZ — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:47:36 -0000

@49 But if he was REALLY your friend, wouldn't you know that without thinking? Or is your list more of a contacts list?

Re: Why Facebook, why now?

Robert Scoble — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:35:43 -0000

Dan, arrghh, I got it wrong. Thanks for the correction.

It's so nice hearing your voice again, even if it's virtually. I gotta get to Monterey for some more sushi!

Re: Why Facebook, why now?

danshafer — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:57:13 -0000

Hey Robert...

Just a quick correction. Scott Rosenberg is not from Slate, as you've said a couple of times lately I think. He's actually a founder of Salon.com, which is an arch-rival of Slate.

Unless of course you know something I don't. Which is entirely possible.

Re: Why Facebook, why now?

francine hardaway — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:44:29 -0000

I actually liked this long authoritative post. Gave me things to think about. But I always see when my friends have deleted applications. Do you ever read your Facebook newsfeed? That's how I know you deleted a bunch of stuff today.

Re: Why Facebook, why now?

Robert Scoble — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:16:28 -0000

Wreck: blame it on Jakob Nielsen. He is an "expert" and is telling everyone to write long, authoritative posts. :-)

Re: Why Facebook, why now?

Wreck — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:56:52 -0000

Scoble: great blog and content, but some of your posts are way too long.

Re: Why Facebook, why now?

Jim Walton — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:50:31 -0000

I agree that FaceBook is the place to be for now. You put the comparison of FaceBook and LinkedIn into words nicely. I've got a few more contacts at LinkedIn so far but I expect that to change and I really see no value to me with LinkedIn. If I ever needed a job or something, maybe professionally, LinkedIn could be there for me, but like you, I don't care where people work or where they came from.

I enjoy the personal side of FaceBook, it's more interesting and more relevant to keeping up with some people.

So, for now, FaceBook is the place to be but it will be interesting to see if it has holding power or if it will just fade into the social networking night.

Re: Why Facebook, why now?

Simos — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:24:35 -0000

I'm sure FB will sort the advertising out.. as soon as they realize they are no longer a network for college students :)

One of the networks I belong to is my college's network, having signed up with my alumnus email (needless to say that I graduated years ago!).

I still get great, targeted ads about events that I would have been really interested in.. if I were still in college! I don't even live anywhere near the place I studied anymore.

It was probably easier for FB to find advertisers that wanted to advertise to specific networks, but it would have been much better if they had an internal 'adwords-type' system. (bidding on keywords, narrow down on location/demographics, ads delivered based on content of each user's profile etc).

then again they might have that already and i haven't even realised! :-)

Re: Why Facebook, why now?

jezarnold — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:27:06 -0000

Robert
As an early adopter for most sites, I was trying to get on to Facebook for years. My Uni in UK was not on the list, and was not added for a couple of years after I left. So when they opened up, I was straight there. Now all those people I knew from Uni, High School, old workplaces who are all there are on it. Its great to find out what people are up to!

One thing that the FB Dev's need to do though is to create a way of segregating your friend list. For instance, I have 160 'genuine' friends on FB, but really only actually keep in touch with approx 50 of them. They should be my A friends. Another 100 are 'old' friends, and people I probably wouldn't make the effort to keep in touch with. These should be my B friends. I have added a few work colleagues. These should be my C friends. Finally, like a lot of your 2500 friends, they are just people I know online. My D friends.

Why cant the FB Dev Team create a system, where I can classify them? 'Limited Friend' is not enough. This way, my B/C/D friends do NOT see what the interaction is between my A friends and myself is.. This would then make it a lot more useful.. and private!

PS the best features of FB is planning nights/events. Its great to see who is coming, and all the other little directions. Also after, people can share the photos with those who came along!

Re: Why Facebook, why now?

linuskendall — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:42:27 -0000

Great post indeed! I got a lot of thoughts out of it. I think that one thing that you touched upon and that some of the commenters discussed which I think would be a great way of doing this is through endorsements.

I think that for me, and most of the people in my age (20-30) at least, we like to endorse products and talk about them to our friends. It's almost second nature + it gives social status to be able to recommend the best and the greatest to your friends. If facebook could give me a serving of a number of chosen ads based on my profile (or even my friends' profiles) and I could choose which ads I'd like to be displayed when around my profile - this would in essence be an active endorsement of that company. The same could go, through say active voting or popularity selections, on networks (say my campus network prefers computer software ads - well then we have that).

Since it's the users producing the content - shouldn't it be the users selecting the ads?