Everyone seems out to get Facebook. The social networking site was conceived just over three years ago but its tremendous progress appears to have sparked unwarranted apprehension in the online world’s bigger and more established names. Now Facebook’s rivals are joining hands to nip its threats in the bud.
MySpace is the world’ largest and most widely used social networking site and its recent announcement to shake hands with Google to open itself to outside web developers to contribute new features that would enable larger networking facility came as a smack in the face of Facebook, which believes that Google is taking unfair advantage of its immense market to turn against it.
And now the news that both MySpace and UK’s premier online establishment Bebo have decided to join force with Google to kindle OpenSocial have kindled talks of collapse of facebook in the face of intense competition. OpenSocial is the latest social networking plan to have galloped out of Google’s closet.
Facebook’s absence from the initial list of participants in Google’s OpenSocial plan appears to imply that it is fighting a war against the entire internet companies. Although one would suggest Facebook to write its name into OpenSpace, one needs to keep in mind that its main rival MySpace doesn’t see it as a welcoming member. Moreover, Facebook doesn’t possess the cushion of funds that MySpace does to enroll itself into OpenSocial.
This all spells tough days ahead for the relatively young social networking website that was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, a former member of the Harvard class of 2006.
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