How Big Will Facebook Get?

Looking at the meteoric growth of Facebook, one could assume that Facebook will continue to grow as the largest social network property. Consider the following stats since Facebook was first launched 7 years ago, in February 2004, from the Harvard dorm of Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin. Facebook reached 100 million [...]

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Filed under: facebook, Social Media, Social Networking on March 9th, 2011 | No Comments »

History of Social Networking Website Failures

The first social networks — online properties where people could chat and share information — were the bullentin board systems, or BBSs, in 1978. And what was one thing that these social network pioneers shared? Web browsers. In 1993, the first the first web-based social network was released in the form of Geocities. The web [...]

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Filed under: facebook, Social Media, Social Networking on March 2nd, 2011 | No Comments »