How did Facebook, which began as a college-based social networking site, become such a huge phenomenon?
First, Facebook has more media forms than any other site, except maybe MySpace. Flickr has photos, but no personal pages. LinkedIn has text, but not much more. Plaxo centers on business cards. Facebook allows for all of these and even has widgets and applications that help you do so much more. The second thing that sets Facebook apart is that it allows independent developers to build their own applications. In modern times, people want the convenience of online, but they also want to have something that begins to approximate the richness of face-to-face interaction. With all of the add-ons appearing on Facebook, I think that we’re getting closer to that. Facebook is always new and developing.
