Exactly spot on macster.... Facebook is a social network, it sucks at everything outside of this at present. The social network aspect is also quite limited to a specific audience and usage. I use it to chat with direct family only, nothing else, as we are scattered across the country. One of my sisters uses it to play some games pretty much only. My nephews and nieces are all about the numbers game... who can have the most friends on their profile, yet the actual activity on their profiles is scarce. Our teenage used to use it consistently, now he has a license, a car, and hasn't been on FaceBook in a week since getting said license and car, thus a life. The problem with FaceBook statistics, is that they will never go down because you cannot delete your account, the delete only makes the account inactive, though you still have an account, thus the statistics only ever increase for them. Good way to look good. Google keep trying, and keep failing in social areas... but they do search better than anyone else in the world. Skype and MSN have chat pretty much stitched up for live and IM chat. Google nor Facebook can catch that video market or cheap phonecalls... nor the IM aspect, because facebook privacy isn't very private at all, unlike an IM between two people.
Everything has its market and seems to pretty much still be holding their own unique niches pretty well. Facebook was purely the winner for social networking, from Orkut or MySpace. Facebook did it better, thus got the numbers. Google did search better, thus stopped most search engines in their tracks, yet many are still around and making money, just not as much. Forums still have a very distinct market, and they aren't going anywhere just yet.
Everything has its market and seems to pretty much still be holding their own unique niches pretty well. Facebook was purely the winner for social networking, from Orkut or MySpace. Facebook did it better, thus got the numbers. Google did search better, thus stopped most search engines in their tracks, yet many are still around and making money, just not as much. Forums still have a very distinct market, and they aren't going anywhere just yet.
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