Wednesday 1 June 2011

Mark...faceBOOK or faceCHALLENGES??


Even though Mark Zuckerberg is labelled as a successful person in his life but only he knows how hard the situation must he faced to be at this stage. For sure all of them won't come easily. Mark as a developer of Facebook, surely has faced so much challenges in order to make his dream become true. Yes finally he succeed and Facebook became a very popular social network nowadays compared to its competitors. Since Facebook is later than Myspace (one of the social network company available), Mark and his friends had to work very hard in order to convince the other consumer to join Facebook. How to attract people who are using Myspace, Twitter or other site to join Facebook? One of them is to make Facebook is a free social networking site. So consumers would attracted to it. But how he want to gain revenue and to maintain the site if he provide this site for free? Plus other social networking site also providing free site. So this kind of matter should Mark and his staffs overcome in order to compete and to win the consumers.

Besides that, features contained in the site also need to give attention because like other social network, they try to improve the service by providing so much great features for example music and videos. Facebook developer need to think something that never been used by other social networking and to ensure that all the features provided is user friendly. No matter for the age whether they are young, old, single or married. Myspace for example has changed the feature(quite a long time ago), but it seems too compact and complex, making people bored to use it. In fact, many of our friends including us have totally out of Myspace. Many people love a simple, easy and attractive feature so that they can do what they want without taking too much steps.

Thinking the limit of age of using Facebook also might be a challenge for Mark because if he got wrong step in deciding it, Facebook would be banned by this generation but in fact this kind of people would bring the popularity into the higher level instead of corporate guys. Kids normally love to make new friends and share common interest together. Kids' wants are hard to stop so since social networks are free, it is a suitable place for them. So, the developer needs to attract these kind of people for always use Facebook as their social networking.

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