If you haven’t hooked onto Facebook yet then it’s probably time you got with 2007. I have been watching the company for some time now, and since they turned down roughly 750M from Viacom, and somewhere around 1B from Yahoo I figured it was worth a check.I believe Facebook could very well be the portal of the future – with exponential growth, and a dedicated audience of early adopters, young men and women from all walks of life, professionals from various industries, and many Fortune 500 companies – I personally believe they could be the next big thing – as in the next Google -- although it will take some time before they get there. Google is very mainstream, and Facebook is just started to get legs.
Facebook is unique because it attracts an extremely broad audience – and as more people get linked in the viral effect is currently unparalleled. Essentially Facebook could very well be Google/Yahoo/Microsoft’s best friend or worst enemy. Just imagine how much power they wield with access to such a network, it’s almost scary.
Let’s just say that Facebook is like Myspace for professionals. As I understand it the site started with college students, and they eventually opened it up to businesses and the general public. It offers a really unique way of connecting with people from your past – and allows you to meet and network with new people.
I found it very interesting that the HP network grew from 2000 people to over 3300 in the last month alone – that’s quite insane!
So, allow me to share some Facebook facts from the HP network;
Our favourite music overall is “rock”. Our top rated movie is “Office Space” – this is pretty funny, but not reminiscent of my working environment. :P
Our top interest overall is music, while our favourite television show is Family Guy (definitely one of my favourites too!) – second favourite is, of course, 24. American Idol didn't even make the top 10 -- although it's one of my favorite shows - go Blake!
Interesting to note that the top read book is the Bible while the second most read is The Davinci Code.
The last thing that I found quite amusing is 79% of the people from HP did not list their political views – I happen to be one of those people.
There’s a very interesting story about the founder and the company in this months issue of Fast Company, I highly recommend you pick it up!
5 blogger comments:
Dacebook stinks, it won;t take normal e-mail. On;y gcollege e-mail accounts. not a lot of people use it compared to myspace. And you are confined to your opwn network and it is difficult to expand into larger networks. Meaning I can;t talk to my other friends with facebook who go to difernt collegesunless I type int heir e-mail addresses. I closed my facebook account and stuck with myspace. and the only reeason I got myspace is because alll of my friends have it. They dragged me into it and Ia m a frequent blogger.
At the current rate Facebook is expanding, I'm sure eventually it'll become a virtual meeting place for everyone. However, Facebook needs to improve on privacy of its users.
Currently your every move, every posts will be visible to all your friends. I'm sure in order to expand to business and general public, Facebook needs to address this problem.
Someone has been reading Fast Company. :)
facebook....i'm a user of facebook. doesnt shock that american idol got the boot. it just doesnt appeal to the college demographic. However gaming does. hmm...gaming & facebook. i think there are banner ads on there currently. But what about a facebook type atmosphere merged with the sims? id like to see that combo.
Engineers are said to be ROCKphiles..no wonder the most common musical preference at HP is Rock. Office Space..hmm..most of the professionals identify with the movie one way or another..so makes sense. And who doesn't love 'The Family Guy'! :)
So..HP is also one of those average stereotype engineering firm these tell me.. :-P..Just kidding.. ;)
--Tejas
http://tejasb.blogspot.com
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