The beeb programme that I have been watching - the virtual revolution - referred to the fact that there is no competition for facebook. This comment came from a contributor, but they can't have spent much time on the web. The idea of social networking is nearly as old as the web. If you think about it, the web is a social network. Even sharing those documents on www.cern.ch was a social network of sorts.
Easy to see all the same where that idea may have some from. Networking sites depend on having a large number of users. The bigger the number the more valuable the network. So its in the interest of network operators of any sort of do all in their power to enlarge their network. Also in the interest of their users to go for the big one. That way their friends are there when they look. Even the friends of old from school who they haven't seen since they were younger than their children.
I reckon that is why fb is so big, nothing sinister, just forces in the inside and outside trying to do the same thing. Mr. Zuckerberg was more than chasing the zeit geist when he same up with that little notion.
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