Yesterday, in San Francisco, Facebook held a press event to officially announce the launch of Facebook Platform. As Michael Arrington notes on TechCrunch, giving this amount of access to developers is the polar opposite of what MySpace has done, which many have accused of sitting within its own walled garden.
Although the move has been widely hailed as an admirably aggressive one that should bring Facebook even greater growth than it is currently experiencing (the latest mind-boggling stat being that it's growing at 3% per week) there have been some concerns that this may spell the end for Facebook's meteoric rise. Some feel that with all of the new development that Facebook is going to undergo the networking site will compromise on what has been the main driving force of its recent expansion – its cleanliness and simplicity.
While many of the third-party applications sound like sure-fire winners their integration with the site is more than likely to change the profile of its everyday users.
However, whether this will slow down its growth is a bold statement to make, and not one that the majority of people are likely to back.
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I can only see this adding to Facebook's appeal. Sure there is the chance there will be too many distractions with the new apps but it allows the profile owner to add more personal flavour to his/her profile.
Posted by Paul Jacobson on 2007/05/25