I'm not sure this helped. A social networking site is only as useful as the number of people on it. I expect Facebook would have grown faster without exclusivity.
> 4) A clean interface
Definitely.
The worse thing about MySpace, and one reason I never considered getting a MySpace account, is that users can customise their page to make it hard or even impossible to read.
If I made a site like MySpace, I'd allow users to customise their page, but I'd also give users an option to use their own customisations when viewing someone else's page. That way, people can read the damn thing!
I'm not sure this helped. A social networking site is only as useful as the number of people on it. I expect Facebook would have grown faster without exclusivity.
> 4) A clean interface
Definitely.
The worse thing about MySpace, and one reason I never considered getting a MySpace account, is that users can customise their page to make it hard or even impossible to read.
If I made a site like MySpace, I'd allow users to customise their page, but I'd also give users an option to use their own customisations when viewing someone else's page. That way, people can read the damn thing!