Why did facebook succeed, while classmates.com and reunion.com just became spammers?

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Goosemaster

Lifer
Apr 10, 2001
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Originally posted by: n7
Facebook was fine till about half a year ago when it became infested with retarded applications & ads.

Now i don't use it much, though it is by far the best of the social networking sites, no question.

aye.
 

sniperruff

Lifer
Apr 17, 2002
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Originally posted by: n7
Facebook was fine till about half a year ago when it became infested with retarded applications & ads.

Now i don't use it much, though it is by far the best of the social networking sites, no question.

and now they put more ad's in there too. sigh.
 

state 08

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Originally posted by: sniperruff
Originally posted by: n7
Facebook was fine till about half a year ago when it became infested with retarded applications & ads.

Now i don't use it much, though it is by far the best of the social networking sites, no question.

and now they put more ad's in there too. sigh.

Better than paying!
 

destrekor

Lifer
Nov 18, 2005
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Originally posted by: LongCoolMother
Originally posted by: Throckmorton
Originally posted by: destrekor
Originally posted by: Quintox
Originally posted by: rocadelpunk
I don't even remember what it was like before facebook :0

I do.

For me, shamefully, it was Xanga, Myspace, then Facebook. I still have all 3, but just because I don't visit the first two anymore. Love facebook though. Really is perfect for college as it seems anyone you ever run into, will have a facebook. Great for communicating to so many people.

Yeah, Facebook is almost universal. There's no better way to keep in touch (or be able to) with people. You'll find a lot of idiots on this forum bashing Facebook, but it's revolutionized communication for our generation (IE people under 25). Virtually everyone under that age cutoff really does have a Facebook.

FB has taken a significant role in politics as well.

true. while im no facebook junkie (tons of people look at facebook in class :roll:), I still realize and understand the huge impact facebook has had. its extremely useful. even some job recruiters communicate on there.

yea. definitely not a junkie here. I leave a tab open with it all the time, but I really only check it if I get an email saying something is new.. or every now and then I refresh my home page to see if anything is new. I don't browse around like crazy, nor do I have thousands of friends. :( :D