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Mark: Yeah. How’s this different from MySpace or Friendster...
...company that Mark E. Zuckerberg ’06-’07 started in his Harvard dorm room prevailed against lesser social networking sites like MySpace and Friendster because only on Facebook could you be reasonably assured that pictures of you masterfully performing a keg stand were viewable exclusively by your college friends. It was an added plus that your inbox wasn’t also bombarded by spam from voyeuristic websites...
...Social networks are notoriously vulnerable to the fickle tastes of teens and 20-somethings (remember Friendster?), so it's entirely possible that three or four years from now, we'll have moved on to some Twitter successor. But the key elements of the Twitter platform - the follower structure, link-sharing, real-time searching - will persevere regardless of Twitter's fortunes, just as Web conventions like links, posts and feeds have endured over the past decade. In fact, every major channel of information will be Twitterfied in one way or another in the coming years...
...modern-day bildungsroman of social networking. The idea was birthed in the seedy underworld of the Internet by the same folks who brought you such innovations as spam, the pop-up ad and spyware. The site itself was a rip-off, a hastily thrown-together clone of its predecessor Friendster. Both sites missed the heyday of the Web bubble, but there's something to be said for persistence and a good idea, and MySpace quickly grew far beyond anyone's expectations. (See TIME's 50 best websites...
...MySpace's thrown-together launch: Finally, on August 15, [2003,] they were ready to launch their bare-bones site. Like Friendster, MySpace allotted each user a profile page with pictures and interests and links to friends. It also had a mishmash of features, including horoscopes, games and blogging, then called journals. "We didn't know what it was going to be about," said MySpace staffer Jason Feffer...