> "So an address book?"

Yes, which is certainly a valuable thing that becomes radically more
valuable when you add pictures, snippets of personal events, friends
of friends, etc. FB is loved because its added brilliant things to
people's list of friends - you can get a pretty rich gestalt of your
friends' lives on the screen. However, it doesn't work for everyone
- you need to be motivated to put your life on the screen and you
need to have friends who play along.

FB has a couple of design characteristics that trump most other
things. The way the user contributed content (photos, comments, etc.)
and user related notifications (News Feed, etc.) pop out so strongly
makes it feel vital and dynamically representative of your social
circle. Its easy to nitpick the latest redesigns but they haven't
disrupted the key stuff.


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