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Originally Posted by halfpint
Another thing is that if you look at social networking sites from a users view. It dosent matter how many new tools there are to use all they want is something that is user freindly and not confusing. Look at twitter its very simple but it does what people want it to do. Its a different story if you are a webmaster and want to monetise the users then we want as many tools as possible.
Webmasters tend to look at programs/software from their own perspectives as to how they should function and tend to forget about the every day surfers point of view
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100% agreed. Remember when MySpace was the king of the hill? Friendster before that? Facebook poached a ton users from MySpace by offering a more uniform look and feel, a huge improvement over MySpace's absurd, skinnable interface. And then, if you weren't on Facebook already, your friends were, and you followed shortly thereafter.
I think that Google's suite of social tools will be unified by Buzz, and slowly but surely users will migrate from Facebook to Buzz, if not only because the same friends that they painstakingly added to FB are _already_ in their Gmail address book.
Yep, not everyone is on Gmail, but as I offered before, the nerds will get on the train today and the normals will be in the station tomorrow.
Google is just plain bigger and smarter than Facebook, and they can beat them at their own game. Today's move is just a small step in a strategy that has been orchestrated for quite some time now, and I think that in 16 months, Facebook will be dethroned.
