Facebook, the tendy social network site for college students has just announced that it will now be letting non-students join the network. This comes on the tails of their recent introduction of the “minifeed” features which allows users to see rss feeds of every change that occurs with their friends profile. For example “Susan just added a new hobby - jumproping” or “Susan and Gumby are no longer friends”. This raised privacy issues but come on, how private do you think you are when you post all your personal information, pictures, and blog entries of your late night run to Taco Bell. I am curious how Facebook decided on the order of releasing their two bombs - one being the mini feed and the second that they are opening up the site to the masses and are placing themselves in the exact same market position as My Space and and Friendster. Perhaps they thought they would stir up hype with the “daring” minifeed and then when they were all over the news they would open the playground doors to the whole town - come swing on the monkeybars! Now that I think about it, it’s a pretty good business strategy!
