Why Facebook is the Future?

Facebook unique visitors grow from 14.07M per month in May 2006 to 27.97M per month in Jan 2007. Indeed, many Hong Kong friends joined Facebook since the last two months.

Facebook was started by Havard student in 2004 as tool for meeting with other Havard students, and it still has a reputation as a hangout for teenagers and the teenaged at-heart. Which is ironic because Facebook is really about making the Web grow up.

Facebook is structured around an opt-in philosophy; people have to consent to have contact with or even see others on the network. Facebook has taken steps this year to expand its functionality by allowing outside developers to create applications that integrate with its pages. Facebook is primarily a feat of social engineering. The most important function of a social network is connecting people and that is second most function is keeping them apart.