Anyone who does not know about Facebook ought to be shot because, even my grandfather is on it.
Already, the video encompasses the massive effects of Facebook through groundbreaking functions which surpassed social networking sites like Friendster and MySpace. Ordinarily, social networking sites allow people to profile themselves and share information visible to millions of people. However, Facebook is more than that. It is an online community on its own, and much of its success lends itself to its creative and one of a kind functions which makes Facebook stand out from the crowd. Yes, we may not be able to change the templates of our Facebook pages (unlike Friendster), but we are able to tag our friends in photos, opt for a more detailed profiling structure, update our statues and play games via Facebook itself! Of course, there are more features to Facebook that differentiates it from other social networking sites, but for the purpose of this blog entry, I am only going to focus on the following.
Photo-Tagging
With the development of API (Application Programming Interface) by Facebook, the site has photo tagging capabilities.
How it works: The Tagging widget displays the tagging interface which prompts people to click on faces and start adding their names, enabling people to "put a face to one's name", literally.
Remember how photo-tagging exploded on Facebook? It all began with cartoon figures and a small description at the bottom of the caricature, where people could tag any of their friends who best represent these cartoon figures.
Detailed & Interesting Profiling Options
As Facebook is all about creating identities, its profile page provides one with many opportunities to list and flaunt their interests. Furthermore, what better way to illustrate one's interests than to have them represented in pictures? Little icons of one's favourite sitcom/movie/music shows up each time one lists them as their interests. That way, instead of plain and boring words, which sometimes are not even eye-catching, people jump straight to the pictures and thus are able to better identify with your interests and connect with you instantly. This promotes a much easier recognition of familiar ground, and it also makes one's profile page look more interesting and colourful!
No need to enhance profile pages by writing out complicated HTML codes as Facebook already provides us with that "pimping experience."
(+++ Bonus points for everybody who faithfully update their profile pages!!!)
Facebook Games
I don't know about you but there was a period of time, I was hooked onto Restaurant City that I played it continuously for two weeks at the expense of sleep and food. Though Facebook does not support LAN games, but the variety of games on Facebook (mostly through tie ups with apps) are already sufficient to meet users' needs. Moreover, such games are targetted towards people who are not into playing violent zombie slaying games but are more inclined to milder computer games like building one's own virtual restaurant haha
Reason for Facebook's success is none other than its myriad of user-friendly functions that keep users glued onto the site.
With that, it sums up how Facebook beats Friendster or MySpace, hands down!!!!!
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