Facebook Feature Story (Clip file 5/15)
I figured I’d take a break from commenting on hard news and switch to a nice feature story. One that really caught my eye today was “Facebook’s Killer Feature: The Mutual Friends List”. I found this article in the “Bits” section of NYtimes.com which is a blogging section that focuses on businesses, technology, and innovation. The first thing I liked about the article was that It was an opinion piece. It was nice to read the writer’s view on this major section of Facebook. I enjoyed how he gave both positive and negative arguments relating to the list qualifying is crucial to me enjoying an article since I like to look at both sides of a point. Another thing that I liked about the article was how the writer gave examples of Facebook competitors such as Linked in or Twitter and compares the idea of mutual friends. It was a very casually written article which may be good or bad. Good, because it made it easy for me to read and to follow but bad because it lacked some of the professionalism that other articles possess. This writer may almost be a bit too happy about the idea of mutual friends on Facebook. He states that he spent an hour with a columnist from Wired and compared who the both of them were friends with. Although a little story like this was a nice touch to the article. There’s not much that too newsworthy in this story, he mentions how Facebook just recently reached 350 million users which is crazy in itself so the idea of mutual friends is known by a large audience and I personally feel that the article may appeal to those who don’t have profiles and maybe advertises Facebook a little to them. A good article though, it kept my interest and was entertaining. Even though it was about a topic that many know about it still served as an Ad for Facebook. Come to think of it just by writing this blog I too am advertising Facebook. Who knew? =)
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/facebooks-killer-feature-the-mutual-friends-list/?hp
