Why Facebook is King
What exactly makes Facebook king? Facebook has over 150 million users worldwide and this is increasing now by about 600,000 every single day! Why? 1.
Easy on the eyes Profile pages all have the same basic design.
There is lots of white space, it looks clean and professional (even with all those pictures of you last Saturday night, or the many cartoon items you can "poke" your friends with).
You can still customize you profiles with 'apps' and other things but the design stays the same.
Pages are easy to read, everyone know where everything is.
It's accessible.
2.
Easy on the brain Facebook is so easy to use.
It doesn't force you to include a certain amount of information on your page.
On other sites, you have to submit lots of info or your profile looks empty.
Facebook gets round this using it's 'wall' feature.
The Wall provides people with a feed of what you have been up to automatically.
If you have been tagged in a picture, your feed gets updated.
If you update your status, your feed is also updated.
This means that no matter what, your profile looks 'lived in'.
You can easily add photos from multiple devices and on the go.
It is easy to add 'apps', it's easy to update your status, it's easy to add friends, it's just EASY! 3.
Privacy As standard, only your friends can see your profile.
Only people you accept to be your friends can view your private photos and follow your personal updates.
Only your friends can send you emails.
No Spam, unless of course you accept spammers! 4.
Non intrusive Ads Ok, they use ads to make lots of dosh, but the way they go about it means that you are not bombarded by adverts for stuff you don't want.
The adverts are neat and always in the same place.
For good or for bad, they are targeted ads.
Ads are placed depending on what you say in your profile.
People say this is an intrusion of privacy, but I say it means I only get adverts for what I actually want to buy.
Which is better all round.
Facebook earn more money as I click on these ads, and I don't have to have ads for weight loss pills, or weight gain 3000 protein shakes shoved in my face! 5.
Applications Applications on Facebook are great.
There are a fair few that are pointless and annoying, but most of them are great.
With these apps you can compare your film knowledge by competing in quizzes with friends.
You can become a vampire and bite your way around Facebook becoming more and more powerful.
You can now even use Facebook for work, with calendars, office apps, email apps, and stocks and shares information.
You choose your apps, nothing is imposed on you and they create a fun and unique way to scialise online.
These are just some of the reasons Facebook has become so popular over the last 5 years, and why it will be popular for years to come (it is estimated that Facebook will have 500 million users by 2011!).
Easy on the eyes Profile pages all have the same basic design.
There is lots of white space, it looks clean and professional (even with all those pictures of you last Saturday night, or the many cartoon items you can "poke" your friends with).
You can still customize you profiles with 'apps' and other things but the design stays the same.
Pages are easy to read, everyone know where everything is.
It's accessible.
2.
Easy on the brain Facebook is so easy to use.
It doesn't force you to include a certain amount of information on your page.
On other sites, you have to submit lots of info or your profile looks empty.
Facebook gets round this using it's 'wall' feature.
The Wall provides people with a feed of what you have been up to automatically.
If you have been tagged in a picture, your feed gets updated.
If you update your status, your feed is also updated.
This means that no matter what, your profile looks 'lived in'.
You can easily add photos from multiple devices and on the go.
It is easy to add 'apps', it's easy to update your status, it's easy to add friends, it's just EASY! 3.
Privacy As standard, only your friends can see your profile.
Only people you accept to be your friends can view your private photos and follow your personal updates.
Only your friends can send you emails.
No Spam, unless of course you accept spammers! 4.
Non intrusive Ads Ok, they use ads to make lots of dosh, but the way they go about it means that you are not bombarded by adverts for stuff you don't want.
The adverts are neat and always in the same place.
For good or for bad, they are targeted ads.
Ads are placed depending on what you say in your profile.
People say this is an intrusion of privacy, but I say it means I only get adverts for what I actually want to buy.
Which is better all round.
Facebook earn more money as I click on these ads, and I don't have to have ads for weight loss pills, or weight gain 3000 protein shakes shoved in my face! 5.
Applications Applications on Facebook are great.
There are a fair few that are pointless and annoying, but most of them are great.
With these apps you can compare your film knowledge by competing in quizzes with friends.
You can become a vampire and bite your way around Facebook becoming more and more powerful.
You can now even use Facebook for work, with calendars, office apps, email apps, and stocks and shares information.
You choose your apps, nothing is imposed on you and they create a fun and unique way to scialise online.
These are just some of the reasons Facebook has become so popular over the last 5 years, and why it will be popular for years to come (it is estimated that Facebook will have 500 million users by 2011!).
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