The website itself looks like the magazines you see at the supermarket when you're in line at the checkout counter. They're very attention catching but in a different way from "What happened next will surprise you" things: "15-Minute Meditation Practice To Guarantee A Great Day", "Your Favorite Bathing Suit Style Reveals Everything About Your Personality", "100-Year-Old Sears House Gets A Modern Makeover".<p>I can see why they're successful, but have to say I was surprised by the $50 million revenue. Fascinating.
Article fails to mention that the founders started Azoogle, which became Epic - one of the biggest companies in the CPA ad space back in the day.<p>In other words, they know what they're doing.
Facebook is the backbone social network. While other platforms will come and go, unless they screw it up, Facebook will, for a long time, be the Alamo of social networks; the fallback, the final rallying point, the basis from which the branches of knowing 'who's who' extend.<p>As long as they understand this and don't jeopardize the position Facebook should be around in this minimum capacity for a long time to come. In the short term I think they are doing the best they can do to position themselves for newer and longer technologies.<p>I wish them all the best and hope to see some real, concrete innovation from them in the next few years.
I wonder how long it will take until young people view FB membership as the epitome of stuffiness and boredom -- one of those things “our parents found cool when they were young and didn't know any better”.
I am almost never see news articles in my Facebook feed. I mostly see ads and pictures of my aunt's breakfast and rants about how Wen shampoo doesn't work as advertised. Am I doing something wrong?