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Its hard to believe that now at least 30% of people are marrying by people they meet online. Is that a good thing?
People nowadays are to afraid to meet people in person and have the Confidence to ask someone out for fear of rejection.

I think I am changing my whole mindset. Sports I am even fading away from to a new mission a more important goal. The stock market I just finally said MERCY.

God is healing me from society’s addictions one by one now I am going to start living. I will fear no man but God. I will care more about the Ducks Unlimited then the Anaheim ducks.

People can change and I still owe you what I promised for Seven years but I am far from Texas. So I will enjoy this Stampede here I reckon.

Good Luck
Trip KINGS
Mark Farwell.

At my new company “the Bize eXpress” @ http://talkbizexpress.blogspot.com/ discusses these things and more. Our goal is to create social and face-to-face opportunities for entrepreneurs to collaborate and maximize their time in getting to the right people and using the best resources.

It would be used as a traffic generator for money sites as the population ages and is thrown over the wall of the walled garden.

To have that many users at the beginning of the consumer life cycle is a gold mine if you hang on to them. Don’t expand the free site so they park there forever.

As they age and their needs change, send them to FacebookJoeShmoe for their early working years. Monetize with resume services, job listings, etc.

As they get married and build families, move them to that life stage…FacebookMarriedwithKids then on and on until they get to FacebookNursingHome which is monetized with everything age related.

Some users would start right off as a free user with facebook and would need a growing period. They’re you’re freebies-soon-to-consume.

They love you so much on facebook that when they’re older, more mature, yet still want to hang on to that college thing you’re there. With advertisers, products, etc. By then, they aren’t broke college kids using beer bongs as stemware.

Basically, use facebook like most websites use Google. As a giant on-ramp to the money sites.

Not sure if this is rhetorical question or not. The short of it is it depends on the owner’s ambitions vs. the business model. Obviously we know where FB netted out and so their model has set sail.

Colleagues ask me where I see FB netting out and I truly have no idea compared with other internet services. Had they just focused on college students, though students would have grown older and outgrown the service that was tailored, maybe jumping to some modified LinkedIn or Doostang, who knows.

As you well know, there are two ways to monetize online, performance advertising and brand advertising. I think the challenge I see with Facebook is their inability to match their product focus with the type of revenue focus they want in the short term.

The bigger question to me now is how does Facebook scale into brand advertising, assuming they continue lift the bar on their performance CPMs. It’s a challenge that MySpace, eGroups, many others couldn’t figure out and I’m still at loss to suggest why Facebook would be any different.

My only other point would be with access to economies of scale so easily online and barriers to entry so small, in my experience it’s easier to defend the small barriers erected around vertical businesses (advertising mix, single unique product configuration, etc) over horizontal businesses that have to scale across multiple advertising groups. Hence, perhaps, edu.

Expedia is still with us; as is Autobytel.
If you’re going to be horizontal, you better be sure their is necessary transactional element and necessary-utility-to-the-user component to your business (a la Amazon, eBay, Google, not MySpace, eGroups, etc.).

From a logical standpoint, people who join the service in college will eventually graduate and go into the workforce, so you can’t keep it college-only forever. What happens when these older Facebook users want to invite their friends to events, groups, etc but their friends still aren’t allowed to join the site? A college-only Facebook would eventually lose out to some generalized megasite that simply let anyone join.

I also don’t understand why it would be harder to target ads if your site has more people. It’s still easy for Facebook to differentiate between the college students and non-college students on its site… simply having more people doesn’t limit their ability to target certain demographics.