The Death of Internet Anonymity

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Originally Posted by kedawa

The front end for facebook might not be anything special, but the server side stuff and the business model would qualify as exceptional.

If you're going for an insult, you should have bolded 'colleges'.

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The front end stuff is good too. People bitch about it all they want, but Facebook gives you the info you want right away and hides the bells and whistles. It also requires an active email to recommend friends. It does so much stuff right. That's why it's #1. There are hundreds of social networks out there. The only way new social networks make ends now is to be a niche community (like ravelry for people who knit). Sure, something may come along and be better than Facebook. But the reason it hasn't isn't because of userbase (the internet is getting faster and bigger - the next big thing will hit a billion users faster than facebook did) it's because Facebook fills the need and does it well.

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

marketing is a stretch for what you do.

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Cry more, baby. Marketing is exactly what I did.

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Originally Posted by kedawa

I forgot that you're an IT expert.

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Fe26 literally has zero expertise in this subject despite his protests against that claim. I'm going to stop posting. It's clear he knows he ignorantly entered a subject he had zero knowledge about and has every intention of being flippant with it now that he was called out.

And it's not just the install base that's keeping them on top. They've also shown that they are very quick to adapt to any real competition, which pretty much negates any "... until the next big thing comes along" fears or predictions. Just another way Facebook is exceptionally well-made & maintained.

But yeah, we're probably better off not posting any more.

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

No one has been able to copy them because of the size of their userbase.

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Remember Myspace?

Hasn't that turned into the projects of the social networking scene?

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Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name

Hasn't that turned into the projects of the social networking scene?

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Is it even that anymore? Last time I was on there, it was pretty much some kind of Band pokemon league. Where you can collect all your bands and check on their tour dates and stuff.

Its become a place for bands and some companies to put up really cheap web pages and songs. No one uses it for a social community anymore.

Which is why it failed or is failing. People have accounts, but they don't use them. And no one is making new accounts. They have lost a good chunk of their user base.

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Originally Posted by Drewbacca

But the reason it hasn't isn't because of userbase

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This is just laughably ignorant. Do you even understand what social media is? The user base is the product. It is what makes facebook possible and finally, profitable. Trying to claim "Facebook fills the need and does it well" is why they are "exceptional" is just absurd. Fulfilling the basic requirement of business, to fill a need and do it well" does not make a business special. That is like saying the shitty McDonald's down the street is exceptional because it "fills a need and does it well"

I can't take you serious anymore if you don't even know what businesses Facebook is in.

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Originally Posted by Drewbacca

Cry more, baby. Marketing is exactly what I did.

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Its on you man. All I know from you talking about your job is that you've worked in a print shop and you might have done some write up because you've bragged in the past about having tons of fonts.

If you want your experience acknowledged, you should go into more depth about what you have personally done. I'm not going to suck your dick just because you worked in the building with people that might have worked with a big company.

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Originally Posted by Drewbacca

Fe26 literally has zero expertise in this subject despite his protests against that claim. I'm going to stop posting. It's clear he knows he ignorantly entered a subject he had zero knowledge about and has every intention of being flippant with it now that he was called out.

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Yeah. You and firstblood should probably bow out. If all you got is "facebook works" and "I might have worked for big companies that I will not name, therefore I know better" and "IP is always wrong, so he can't be right about this?" then you don't have anything.

Wait you think Drew just works in a print shop?

Amazing.

I know what he talks about.

That's all the rest of us know as well.

Which is entirely different from what you just said.

Maybe I miss some threads. I don't keep records on you guys.