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Facebook Won The Conversation Battle By jasongoldberg

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Source: Louis Gray - FriendFeed

Mar 14, 2009

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Well, it took several days, but I finally got the new Facebook homepage. With this redesign, Facebook realized the battle is for conversation. Conversation makes a site more of a destination for people, and the new redesign is completely targeted towards this. As much as sites like Twitter and FriendFeed have been battling for the conversation destination title, I warned that Facebook could just decide that they need to own something.

Facebook has just won the conversation battle. Why? The reasons are fairly simple. First, they have almost 200 million users staring at the “What’s on your mind?” prompt. All of the other social sites combined do not have anywhere near this number of unique users. You will probably not hear this from many bloggers, because they tend to be early adopters. Those people, myself included, will stick with Twitter. This is about the mainstream. Facebook is most definitely a mainstream site. One killer feature they have that Twitter does not is lists. I quickly created lists for groups of my Facebook friends and was able to view their u

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Comments (4)

Rjcortez,

Mar 15, 2009

I like the new interface. Interested in seeing how the lists works to weed out clutter.

Jasongoldberg,

Mar 15, 2009

@AlaskanBest I agree with you, the new Facebook interface is slick and will only make Facebook stronger.

Eyebee,

Mar 16, 2009

I preferred the previous style, but I'm much more of a Twitter/Friendfeed user than Facebook in any case, so for me personally, it's not a big issue, as I don't spend long in there