Comments on: What Facebook Should Do Next http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/07/10/what-facebook-should-do-next/ News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:10:55 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mike Borozdin http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/07/10/what-facebook-should-do-next/comment-page-1/#comment-763582 Mike Borozdin Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:46:36 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=2601#comment-763582 I'd say Facebook is the largest USA social networks. Yes, probably it's the most popular social network in the world, but... have you heard about Facebook clones? German, Russian, Chinese and many others? They are very popular in the countries, simply because the are oriented towards visitors in those countries, while Facebook, for instance, just doesn't have Russian universities and it's real pain to make them add one. I wrote about this in my post "<a href="http://www.mikeborozdin.com/post/Facebook-Lose-Millions.aspx" rel="nofollow">Facebook Lose Millions</a>". I’d say Facebook is the largest USA social networks. Yes, probably it’s the most popular social network in the world, but… have you heard about Facebook clones? German, Russian, Chinese and many others? They are very popular in the countries, simply because the are oriented towards visitors in those countries, while Facebook, for instance, just doesn’t have Russian universities and it’s real pain to make them add one.

I wrote about this in my post “Facebook Lose Millions“.

]]> By: krdr http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/07/10/what-facebook-should-do-next/comment-page-1/#comment-758437 krdr Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:12:33 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=2601#comment-758437 It will be very hard for facebook to keep visitors if they don't change privacy policy, and do something about performance. It becoming to slow and overcrowded with useless apps. Future is not bright for facebook. Investments in infrastructure are big, and facebook is still slow. It will be very hard for facebook to keep visitors if they don’t change privacy policy, and do something about performance. It becoming to slow and overcrowded with useless apps. Future is not bright for facebook. Investments in infrastructure are big, and facebook is still slow.

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