I first heard about Facebook during Orientation weekend at college.  Back then Facebook was open only to colleges and then only to certain colleges.  When it came to the school I was attending at the time, it was a Really Big Deal.  Apparently people from my school had been campaigning to get it added for quite awhile.  Nobody really used Myspace then, it was all about the ‘book. Nearly everyone I knew had one.

Then it started opening up.  First to high school students, then to anyone with a work email, then finally to anyone in the world who wanted to join.  Somewhere in all of this came the applications.  Not too soon after were the random friend adds from people I’d never heard of.  People started abandoning and deleting their profiles, and the ones who didn’t logged in much less often.

Now it’s just like any other site.  Nearly all social networking sites try to be like Myspace eventually and destroy the things that made it unique and appealing.  All to get more users (and advertising revenue)…