For the past months, Facebook’s popularity has boomed to great heights. Facebook’s popularity boomed so much that Myspace was forced to layoff some workers on some parts of the world.
So what is it that other community sites need to do to overtake Facebook’s popularity? The answer: use the same applications that got Facebook there.
In my own personal opinion, Facebook’s popularity boomed because of two things; games and Facebook IM. Facebook became like an all-in-one community site. It became a place where people can share pictures, play games and chat with each other. Myspace did have the Myspace IM way before Facebook IM but the IM applet was not embedded in the browser as you had to download and install it as a separate client, and that’s where Facebook capitalized.
Now, other community sites are seeing what Facebook is doing, and they are to do the same thing. Myspace has now integrated games as part of their applications. They have also integrated a Facebook-like IM. I tested the Myspace IM once but there seems to be a problem with it. Multiply, another community site, has also integrated the Facebook-like IM just this week.
It seems that every community site is now banking on how Facebook is doing things. I think one major thing that Facebook lacks, and having this will convince me that it has topped Myspace, is music players. Myspace music still is one of my favorite community site application and if Facebook ever gets one like it, it’s Facebook FTW!
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