Facebook membership is being expanded through 500 geographical regions, filtering access based on location.
Under its new system, Facebook will create new networks for 500 geographic regions, and it will allow anyone to join them. In the default setting, people in the region — like the New York City area — will be able to see the full profile of other members in the same region. Facebook has long offered a series of options that allow users to expand or contract the information shown to various sorts of people.
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO:
We give people tight control over their information. You can say, I want people in my company to see the pictures in my photo album but I don’t want my mom to see them.’
This is how Matchmaker, now owned by Date.com, operated back in the day. It was the only site with geographic silos and one of the first to feature Essay-style questions instead of the brevity of today’s “what’s your favorite sports team” inquiries.
Via New York Times (reg req’d).
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Today I was thinking about a problem of expanding a service. Usually if any business is successful people try to widen it to get more profit. But sometimes they are not aware of the fact that may be that success contained in the fact that the business was unique and small. It was exclusive and that’s why desirable for many people around. And I found an example of expanding business- to my mind it’s Facebook.com
Now some people already see the results and are not very contented with them. Others enjoy new atmosphere. I suppose some people will join some will go away. But I’m afraid that the site and community will loose it’s special atmosphere and ideology.