Woodward, Goofers..
you make feel a little bad re: my 'bragging" about FBFK ;-) @ 22974 right now !!!
I'm just starting this little topic for all to come moan about their 50 - 100 userbase ;-(
NOW: SERIOUS STUFF::=
There are many theories on how to attract a large userbase to a social networking website. I bellieve that FBFK's "success" is a coincidence, a social black hole that was filled up initially purely accidently to keep MJ's 5-yr old off the other FB !!.. if you could only read how MJ has explained privately to me.. about how FBFK started...
Have a read thru these --
Much good reading, esp the second one by Ben from a while back, before he left Elgg.com
My small points are that a Social Network will not attract a userbase just because I have created it using Elgg (or whatever) as a super-duper pkg with oodles of neat plugins !!! A social networking site will only be "successfull" when it satisfies a certain "hunger" people have for "something" on the internet. And that hunger is *not to simply be a user on an Elgg (or other) SocNet web-site.
That hunger is a far more personal and human psychology factor. Why do we go to bars ? Why do we join Tennis Clubs ? Why do we join dance clubs ? Why did we join this Elgg community ? Humans need to communicate their thoughts, feelings, sometime just have a need to to another human person...
Am I making this too heavy and academic ?
A successful social web site depends on a lot of **human factors, not just software and plugins alone.. That is one reason there are so many $5 hosting accounts owned by those who think they will be the next Facebook or Myspace, while the hosts are making $5 x NNNNN per month ;-)
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August 21st 12:46 AM
Users: 24285
@MJ...
I got a funky feeling you are gonna be buying mucho San Miguels ;-)
This is the time when you introduce the 10 friends in 30 seconds game...
Let Dhrup tell you about it.. and if it works, the potential is that you will have 150,000 users by next Wednesday.
No no no not yet too many too soon
I need to sleep first, and then get a new wife, er I mean life, er I mean server
Dos cervezas poor me amigo and 6 for me then maybe we will play the game.
2009 Aug 22 12:03 am = 24,473
9 days to go until 27,000++
;-)
need ~250+ / day
to grab those luvely **imported SanMiguels
;-)
well all my friends kids have gone over. I know you are right about school starting up and the kids telling their friends, I am already hearing about it from the wee ones.
@ 24,565 right now...
MJ is betting 26,00 by Aug 31
I reckon more like 27,000...
O hope those kids come thru and make my numbers..
I've got some serious San Miguels 6-packs riding on this ;-)
08/24/2009 7:11 pm @ 25000
AAaaarhhhhhhhhhhhhhhrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr You beat me to it
11 days ago 22974
7 days left ;-O
25198 -- 8/26/2009 @ 12:02am
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