On Tuesday, Facebook unveiled yet another new feature that will help it remain competitive with other networking/social sites: instant messaging. In this article, CNN says that Facebook Chat could mean huge competition for AOL Instant Messenger, which is currently the number one instant message service.
Facebook was launched in 2004. Since then, it has added features like photo-sharing, blogs, and free classified ads. In short, it is using one program to rival sites like Craigslist ,Photobucket ,Blogger.com, and now, AOL IM. Obviously, Facebook's advantage is having everything in one place...even something rival MySpace, which News Corporation bought for $580 million in 2005, has really only recently tried to corner as well.
With 69 million users worldwide, Facebook is still only the second most popular networking site (MySpace is first with 110 million users). But Facebook's aggressive tactics to fit the most features into one site may not only help it add new users, but also retain the millions that it has. In a constantly evolving online world that offers countless choices to distract people, it may be smartest for websites like Facebook to keep their users constantly evolved and up-to-date with the newest technology as well.
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Did you try the chat?
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