Mark Zuckenberg and his homies are not “gazillionares” for no reason. These guys are freakin smart and are always ahead of the game when it comes to improving Facebook and the internet along with it. The foresight of Mark Zuckenberg and friends has allowed Facebook to grow from a college campus tool to having enough members to be the third larget nation in the world. Yep, thats right. If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest country in the world. So with all those people Facebook has been faced with keeping out the clutter, spam, and keeping peoples information private. So incomes the new Facebook Groups feature…
WHAT IS FACEBOOK GROUPS?
The new Facebook “groups’ feature that rolled out today allows you to:
1. Invite your friends to join you in gated (if you choose) social network
2. Share wall posts, links, photos, videos, events, documents and engage in group chat (that only your group can see)
3. Share content privately without worrying about your mom, boss, or that “not so cool friend” seeing it.
This concept sounds really familiar… Well, its exactly what Facebook is — or what it started out as. Facebook was cool when it first started because of the “exclusivity” factor (well that and the fact that you could stare at the pics of that hot girl in your english class).
The Groups feature brings that exclusivity factor back to Facebook and it allows Facebook to steer away from one of the things that killed MySpace (no exclusivity).
Do I think the group feature is some revolutionary feature that will change the internet?…..NO. But its a small feature that could keep Facebook alive unlike its predecessors. Kudos to Facebook.