facebook Explosion

I don't really remember the last time I saw a website explode like facebook has in the last two months.  For those that are unfamiliar with facebook, facebook is a social networking website originally developed for college and university students, but has recently been extended to anyone that wishes to join the site!  There was some controversy over this, however it has been a phenomenal boom to facebook, and will help the company make the site even better!

The site currently has over 18 million registered users, and is actually more popular than flickr for uploading images (The site currently has over 6 million images uploaded daily)!  facebook differs greatly from Myspace!  The major difference is the inability to customize the colours, html, css, etc of the facebook interface.  I love this as it makes it so much easier to get right to the point when looking at your friends pages, without having to try and read purple text on black backgrounds.

facebook is also not polluted with people looking for dates, relationships, and advertisers spam coming in from every direction.  The ability to quickly see what your friends are up to, organize events, upload and tag images, and post various types of media to your site is just amazing.  The News Feed is also a great page that keeps you up to date with your friends and family in a quick glance!

Generating over 1,000,000 dollars weekly, 30 billion page views per month, facebook is definitely about ready to be acquired.  Will Google snap up another one?  Or will Microsoft finally "win" one with the purchase of facebook?  Either way, the days of logging into MySpace for me are over.