Next data came from video same as previous post, Did You Know 2008 Latest Edition:

• Facebook took  2 years to reach a market audience of 50 million
• There are over 200 million registered users on MySpace. If myspace were a country, it would be the 5th-largest in the world (between indonesia and brazil)

Friendster was founded in 2002, MySpace 2003, and Facebook 2004 (not long after one another). All of them are web 2.0 site. Web 2.0 refers to a perceived second generation of web development and design, that facilitates communication, secure information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and applications (you can also develop yours for the web).

Friendster is focused on helping people meet new friends and they started to write each other testimonial. Friendster was founded by computer programmer Jonathan Abrams in 2002 in Mountain View, California before the creation, launch and adoption of MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn and others. After the 2002 launch of Friendster, several eUniverse employees with Friendster accounts saw its potential and decided to mimic the more popular features of the social networking website, in August 2003, and later known as MySpace (Wikipedia). Later, MySpace have more feature than friendster like music or mobile access, and became America’s number one. Now, MySpace still great a site for musician to introduce their music I think, especially indie music. So if there is no other site can provide better service for that feature, MySpace will never die.

(FYI: MySpace syndrome didn’t appear in Indonesia. After Friendster, people starting to use Facebook, I think it’s because our bad internet penetration. We use some web service after foreign people get bored with it.)

Facebook now take over its competitor’s visitor. So… what makes Facebook so great? I think it is the ‘network, interest and multimedia’ feature. You can meet people in your network, like same city, same college, or meet people who have same interest with you like music, or tv show. I think it also have complete ‘multimedia’ feature, or this ‘Art of Listening, Learning, and Sharing’ feature. Facebook have it all!

It’s Facebook time for everybody. But who know what comes next? Web 3.0? Nothing last forever.