Facebook, unline google, is just a message board. You can talk all you want about significanse of social networking online, and how it "changes everybody's life", but significant or not, this is social phenomena, not a technological one.
But from a technology point of view, Facebook is primitive. College projects at good CS schools are more interesting and challening. It's a freakin message board, just like that guy said.
Facebook is not technologically primitive. Unlike some earlier, similar services, it scales. This is no accident, but has to do with clever things like Thrift (go google it). Also, I remember the current CTO of Facebook as being extremely smart even by the standards of the good CS school we both attended.
Yeah, and Google is just a box that you type stuff into. Just because someone can make an oversimplified explanation doesn't make it true. There's a lot more going on in these products than you realize. There's a reason why Facebook is winning and, for example, Orkut is not.
Exactly. There is a lot of things going on for Facebook. I hope some day it will be revealed, who started this giant PR wave promoting it and who stands behind this hysteria.
I am not commenting on Google vs Facebook nonsense anymore.
But from a technology point of view, Facebook is primitive. College projects at good CS schools are more interesting and challening. It's a freakin message board, just like that guy said.