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Facebook is celebrating their 5th birthday today. The social networking website, founded by then-19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg in his Harvard dorm, has 150 million users around the world, and Zuckerberg is spending his 20s laughing his way to the bank.
With the state of the global economy, some experts believe the site can't claim runaway success yet, CNN reports. Although it's very popular, it's not de rigeur for most people like Google for example, and may find itself struggling to be relevant in the coming years. But Zuckerberg isn't swayed; he says there's plenty to look forward to: "Building and moving quickly for five years hasn't been easy, and we aren't finished [...] The challenge motivates us to keep innovating and pushing technical boundaries to produce better ways to share information."
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how many users again?
150. They're all my friends, 2x each.
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Interesting (or not really) thing I noticed was this '25 things about you' note that's been going around facebook. It seems awfully myspace-ish.... could this be the end of facebook?
Yes! That's been going around like crazy. Curiously, though, it seems only my American friends on FB are doing it (I have a pretty big Canadian contingency) and I found that, up until maybe last year or so, the Canadians were more into FB than MySpace, by quite a bit. Although that 25 things meme is ubiquitous, it's nice that it does allow each user to write something about themselves; it's not some cartoon image or joke getting plastered on everyone's wall. (Okay, busted--I totally did that 25 Things meme.)
Whoa, whoa, I still haven't done that 25 things blah blah yet! I'm just from Chicago
Hello? I'm sitting over here on Friendster...hello? Anyone here? Anyone?
Facebook can't die until the next hot site comes along to dethrone it. And that site would be....?
Hmm, some would say Twitter is the heir to the throne. But when I talk to some young people (18-20ish) about Twitter they say it's lame. They also love them some MySpace, though.
People also think Facebook jumped the shark when they opened it up to non-students, or, along similar lines, when people's parents started signing up.
Friendster is still doing well but in other countries, so DecafBruin, you are more globally-minded.
As a .edu denizen myself, I agree with those people about FB's shark-jumping. It was really nice when it was a more closed world, but worlds like that aren't nearly as attractive to e-marketers....
I feel bad for Friendster. For me, they had a great product but its popularity caused the system to be way too slow and annoying to deal with. I feel that is part of what caused all my friends to move to MySpace before Facebook was even a notion.