Comments on: Facebook Open Registration http://andrewteman.org/blog/2006/09/26/facebook-open-registration/ Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:44:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Facebook: a case study of Web success » Mathew Ingram: mathewingram.com/work http://andrewteman.org/blog/2006/09/26/facebook-open-registration/#comment-5277 Facebook: a case study of Web success » Mathew Ingram: mathewingram.com/work Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:30:42 +0000 http://andrewteman.org/blog/2006/09/26/facebook-open-registration/#comment-5277 [...] others with a .edu address. The company has since lifted that restriction, which has drawn some criticism from those who thought it should have stuck to its original pla [...] [...] others with a .edu address. The company has since lifted that restriction, which has drawn some criticism from those who thought it should have stuck to its original pla [...]

]]> By: erik http://andrewteman.org/blog/2006/09/26/facebook-open-registration/#comment-4595 erik Sat, 07 Oct 2006 15:57:21 +0000 http://andrewteman.org/blog/2006/09/26/facebook-open-registration/#comment-4595 I find this to be a silly move on Facebook's behalf too. Especially in regards to revenue. By having an audience that is nothing but mysoginists,alcoholics and Dane Cook fans, the advertising scope was limited, but could allow for a great amount of saturation on behalf of the companies and people behind this flood of bad culture. Now every Dick and Jane can have a profile, and the people behind collegehumor.com, and the 'bros' responsible for the text ads for Frat parties will have to find some other lame forum to get their message out. Also, with their rumored buyout by Yahoo of Facebook, I fear that Flickr might become a wasteland of party pictures (more so than it kinda is already). I find this to be a silly move on Facebook’s behalf too. Especially in regards to revenue. By having an audience that is nothing but mysoginists,alcoholics and Dane Cook fans, the advertising scope was limited, but could allow for a great amount of saturation on behalf of the companies and people behind this flood of bad culture. Now every Dick and Jane can have a profile, and the people behind collegehumor.com, and the ‘bros’ responsible for the text ads for Frat parties will have to find some other lame forum to get their message out.

Also, with their rumored buyout by Yahoo of Facebook, I fear that Flickr might become a wasteland of party pictures (more so than it kinda is already).

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