Mark Zuckerberg at Web 2.0 Summit

I recently watched Mark Zuckerberg at Web 2.0 Summit In this video Mark was talking about how his FaceBook is so popular. He said, the reason people use FaceBook so often, is because it's social. When he created FaceBook, there were networks for: music, buying, email, etc... but nothing social. Why FaceBook is so popular, is because people want to interact with their friends that they know from home, school, camp, out-of-town, etc., and FaceBook does more than just chat, but share pictures, videos, status', messages, locations, and so much more. FaceBook is a huge social network that has over 200 million people and more than 50% of those people go on everyday. that's at least 100 million on FaceBook everyday! I know go on almost every time I'm on my computer and since I have the app on my iPhone, I go on all the time.

Some more things Mark talked about, were how people can start a whole business on FaceBook. Zynga is a gaming company that grew completely on FaceBook.

Mark explained how FaceBook is right in the middle of the web designing spectrum. Microsoft has a great unit but thousands and thousands of designers. FaceBook has 200 millions of users but only hundreds of designers.

Mark said something spectral also, that if you're making something people will love, you can make many mistakes to mature your company and make it the best it can be.

He said kids love technology. Someone asked him if FaceBook would make something for educational use. He explained how if someone made an application for education that was attractive to kids, people might be much more into learning, because it's interactive and with technology.

Being social is what makes FaceBook so successful. People would rather listen to music their friends are listening then listen to something that is just popular on iTunes. When something gets social, it becomes much more popular than when it is unsocial.

FaceBook wants to help businesses grow so they help make the company social, while the companies do what they do. As companies grow, they need to become social so they can grow bigger and more popular.

Mark said the map of the internet is not all taken on, because if everything is filled them people have to take over territory. The map is mostly free space because anyone can take over and make their site, or blog, on that map because the extra space on the map is endless.

"We lived in farms, then we lived in cities, and now we're gonna live on the internet!" -The Social Network


-BZ