Inside Facebook: the Facebook Book

facebook is now an open network

Filed under: About Facebook — by Karel at 2:16 pm on Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Facebook dropped its exclusive niche officially today, and encourages us to invite all of our friends, now that we can. I just spammed like 100 friends with the yahoo import tool as “Facebook opened to everyone today, so just letting you know, in case you were interested. I like FB, for reasons noted in my book at fbbook.com. You may find it useful. I won’t spam you again about joining a social network, unless I start one someday ”. I’ll comment below later with the uptake.

There’s so much to say about this. Someone could write a whole chapter about it. What do you think?

Do you miss exclusivity? Are your friends biting? Are the new privacy controls enough, and do you use them?

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Comment by Karel

September 26, 2006 @ 6:04 pm

Actually, I sent to 90 people. My first submit to the site failed to an application php error, so perhaps the feature is busy. But this means that my customized message was not delivered. So it probably felt like true spam.

Facebook noticed that one of my invitees was already on the site, with “The following people are already registered on Facebook. We have sent them friend requests for you.”

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Comment by Karel

September 27, 2006 @ 9:30 am

7 of my 90 friends joined in the first 12 hours, all highly tech savvy and industry connected. most are ignoring it, even though “reply to” is set to me. My facebook name starts with double byte characters, so the “From” field was garbled to be all question marks.

one wrote “I’m surprised my spam filter didn’t pull this. Sheesh.” he didn’t join.

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Comment by Karel

September 27, 2006 @ 9:38 am

Techcrunch was early on this, of course.

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Comment by Karel

September 29, 2006 @ 8:53 am

final tally: 16 joined out of 118 invited. mostly web executives and other communication technology heavy users.

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