Facebook Friend Adder Marketing in Anytown, Cyberspace?

by Sam B. Goldberg

When people used to get together, they had to actually physically be in the same space – in diners, coffee shops, social clubs and in each other’s living rooms. Now they just have to sit down in their offices or homes and turn on the computer to visit someone – even if they’re in opposite parts of the world.

Online social networking started small, in simple, text based chat rooms. Today, it is a sociological and marketing phenomenon, with massive virtual communities dedicated not only to friendship and chilling out, but to developing and implementing cutting-edge investment, technology and marketing. With a two hundred and forty million dollar investment from computer giant Microsoft, Facebook is now at the center of the action, having been deemed the major player in this new internet age.

Founded over three years ago by Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard drop-out, Facebook’s fifty million-plus member site still lags behind MySpace in numbers. But with two hundred thousand new users joining every day, Facebook definitely has the momentum. The reason? A dramatic change of policy by Facebook management that has breathed new creative life into the whole concept of online social interaction.

In May of 2007, Facebook for the first time allowed outside developers and companies to develop applications for the site in exchange for a share of the advertising revenue. In under six months, over five thousand new ones appeared – Facebook tools that allowed users to share photos and music, start werewolf and zombie fights with each other, challenge each other in popular, simple games like Jetman, gift each other with eggs that take days to hatch and reveal a surprise, and thousands of other clever, creative ways to allow users to interact and to polish up their individual profiles.

This took Facebook to a Web 2.0 / Web 3.0 level and approached the elusive web semantic ideal where a layered online community would interact in totally new and self-contained ways – and attracted highly-desirable and intelligent computer users who were a natural new marketing base.

This marketing base is why Facebook is so attractive to a corporation like Microsoft – and why internet marketers at all levels are looking for ways to get their messages into this amazing new social system that’s experiencing the kind of explosive growth that comes along rarely.

That new database is a large part of the reason companies like Microsoft, as well as Google and Yahoo!, are so intent on understanding and taking advantage of what’s happening at Facebook. When users latch on to a site so quickly, like they did with YouTube, it’s a phenomenon that can’t be ignored.

So if you’re ready to do battle with the big boys like Google and Microsoft, it’s time to arm yourself. Facebook marketing software like Stealth Friend Bomber, Facebook Edition can give you unprecedented access to the same audience they spend millions to reach. Which already makes you look like a winner.

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