Microsoft battled Google and Yahoo! to pour two hundred and forty million into it. It is now valued at approximately fifteen billion dollars. Since May of 1007, more than five thousand applications have been created specifically for it, its fifty million active members and the two hundred thousand users who join up every day.
With a member base totally over 50 million, and with an average of 200,000 new users registering every day, Facebook suddenly looms as the largest target for online marketers around the world. The number of users and the dollars involved are only the icing on the Facebook cake, however. The real cause of Facebook's popularity is what it represents - which is the emergence of Web 2.0 / Web 3.0. What Microsoft thinks is so important about Facebook is its standalone online operating system - which operates independently of a computer's operating system such as Windows Vista.
A big draw to the site is all the free Facebook tools and applications that users can use to either interact with their Facebook network or just use to display their own personal preferences. You can have a zombie fight, share your favorite music, challenge a friend to a virtual race with a virtual car, exchange quizzes, or just throw a sheep to get someone's attention.
Facebook's fun online community is rapidly becoming like a snowball rolling downhill, gathering more and more users, who in turn attract their friends, none of whom want to miss out on what everyone's talking to. And it's ending up, after three and a half years of a relatively quiet existence, as the New Big Thing in cool internet content, thanks to Facebook opening the site up to the creation of lots of fun new applications by outside developers.
So forget Friendster and keep watching MySpace deteriorate into MySpam, the millions of Facebook friends is a whole new attractive group of millions and millions ready to be marketing to in a whole new way. But how do you take advantage quickly - and tap your marketing operation seamlessly into that massive Facebook database? And do it in a painless automated way, leaving you free to continue to manage and expand your business?
How does the smaller internet marketer compete with the resources of a Microsoft in getting a piece of the Facebook action is the big question, however. Fortunately, there's an answer that works
Stealth Friend Bomber, Facebook Edition is one of the most effective Facebook software packages. Automatically generating Mass Facebook Friend Messages, Requests and Pokes to a wide range of Facebook users, this must-have Facebook tool does everything and more to help you harness the power of the hottest social networking site in cyberspace.
So face up to the big changes that Facebook is bringing to the online marketing world. Those changes are here to stay - until, of course, the next big changes occur.