Facebook was first a service for Harvard students. It then expanded to include other universities and colleges. Next it started taking in high school students. And now, incredibly right on the heels of the News Feed controversy, it intends to open i…

Regardless of the marketing perspective that Facebook may provide for those with PhDs, 95% of all internet users have learned to tune-out any and all advertisements.

Zuckerburgs heading down shit-creek in my opinion.

Uh, right. “Hey guys, how can be build the valuation of the company since no one wants us for $2bb? Oh, right, lets just let more people use it!”

As other people have stated, they should focus on better utilizing their existing niche audience. I can think of a handful of large features they could launch to increase ad revenue per user, without ruining the experience of the site (and the stupid News Feed isn’t one of them).

In my opinion, Zuckerberg got extremely lucky with the success of the site (just a right time, right place thing), and continually shows his immaturity as a CEO.

His will was simply too strong.. and the masses, who are but weak and simple minds, enventually bowed to his unrelenting vision of genius (not to mention his accutely targeted ad initiative based upon vast amounts of highly specific user information collected from mining what has essentially morphed into a all-encompassing consumer survey)

Brilliant!
If anyone doesnt yet see the beauty of Facebook’s “clean and uncustomizable look” from a dollars standpoint yet, I suggest they take another gander. With MySpace, those stupid bastards desire to make it a completely open and unresticited system effectively nullified any sort of system to aggregate users into highly specific demographic/character groups. Facebook on the other hand keeps it simple. What bands do you like, what books, what TV shows, what schools and where do you live etc… Hell, at this point, they dont even need to ask any more “questions” because there are plenty of phD marketing gurus out there who from simply that amount of information alone, can accurately determin your purchasing ::gasp:: habits, income, brand-taste etc. etc.

Not sure if any of you are familiar with MapInfo - its a semi-succesfull mapping business that has expanded out into the realestate sector to name just one of there moves - but these guys have actual names for the groups of people/consumers residing around a potential project-site. Think “20something wholefooder” or “just married mini-van mom”. And they’re amatuer hour all the way! Imagine what the 32 million dollar “brain trust” in zukenburge world is capable of

I logged on to Original Signal today only to find that Facebook has apparently made the entire blogosphere sit up and wet their pants. Oh wow, they’re finally going to open their social network to everybody!
I’m going to pull a David Spade …

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