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| quote: | Originally posted by R!CH
i was convinced to start a facebook a while back. other than keeping in touch with a tiny percentage of friends who just refuse to use myspace, i never even use it. i hate the format of the site and how everything on there is geared towards teenagers looking for ways to waste time, ie: pokes, gifts, drinks, invites, requests, quizzes, newsfeeds on how fast i'm breathing at the moment, etc. myspace seems to be the king of social networks and self promotion. everything on there has a purpose is and is to the point and from a marketing/promotional standpoint, your profile is an open palette, not a rigid cookie-cutter template of uniformity. |
Believe it or not, if you keep the lamos and kiddies off your profile, you can have a very productive social networking tool. The networks alone are priceless. Google has 7,000+ of its employees on there. It'll be interesting to see, but I think Facebook could eliminate Linked-In in a matter of months if they keep beefing up their network structure the way I'm hearing.
For professionals, I think Facebook is an excellent tool. No other social network offers you such a diverse feed as to what your contacts are doing (and yes, you can eliminate the vampire/zombie, blah, blah, etc crap).
And for the youngins, it's a fun little playground for hooking up and adding silly little (money-making $$$) apps to their profile.
I have to give major props to their API. It's phenomenal. But it'll be interesting to see if they cave in to Google's Open-Social standards. Right now Mark Zuckerberg and company seem to be playing their cards right. I mean, how many other companies out there can sucker Microsoft into paying $250 MILLION for just 1.5% of their company. 
Props, major props. ;]
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