My Notes - Facebook adds a blog feature + Rss feeds Screenshots included

Facebook has rapidly been trying to improve their social network with flickr like photos and mobile uploads. Now facebook has finally caught up to the blogging world and added “Facebook notes.”

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As you can see Facebook is still focusing on the tagging and photo aspect of the Web 2.0 world. This commitment being made by facebook to educate the users in the world of technology has us really excited. If users become familiar with blogs, they will obviously start reading more blogs!

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It is going to be very interesting to see how the uneducated college crowd reacts to blogs and RSS feeds.

Facebook “Flyers” A Complete Waste

In early May of 2006 Facebook launched a new feature, “Facebook Flyers.” The idea behind this was that any Facebook user could buy a small block of text on the left sidebar of Facebook. This block would appear on every student’s page who belonged to the chosen college/university. The cost of this service is a mere $5.

Looking at Boston Universities “Current Flyer Board” there are only 7 advertisers who spent the $5. In reality, when using Facebook, the average user sees more “sample flyers” made by Facebook than real flyers made by the students. As of right now, this marketing tool is completely useless to students since anyone can simply make a group or an event to advertise what they want… for FREE. Not only would this service be free, but effective.

Just to make sure this notion was true, I tested the “Facebook Flyer.” I bought a spot to see how many visitors I could send to a popular Hip-Hop site my friend owns. I put up the $5 flyer, and posted it at the University of Houston. The results? 2 unique visitors in a 24 hour span. Facebook rules!

Facebook Revamps It’s Photo Section

Social networks such as Flickr have enjoyed major success in the world of social networking via photos. Facebook has always paid serious attention to this aspect of social networks, and this trend has continued with their re-worked photos section. Last week Facebook started the transformation of their “My Photos” page, and now the transformation seems to be complete. Speaking of Flickr, the new design is “Flickrey.” Anyway, the most useful feature is the “recently tagged friends.” Instead of going to your friends’ page and searching endlessly for new pictures, Facebook tells you when a new photo of your friend has been added.

We’ll see if Facebook continues to focus on the photos section. The company has shown that a functional and useful photo aspect to a social network will help keep users coming back daily. Not that college kids need more reason to be addicted!