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June 15, 2007, 03:12 PM ET
Facebook's New 'Platform' Is a Big Hit
If your students’ Facebook pages look considerably different this fall, well, that’s by design. Now that the company has released Facebook Platform, a set of tools that lets designers and businesses create their own applications for the site, users of the social network are rushing to outfit their profiles with new accouterments.
The applications will finally let people tweak the aesthetics of their Facebook pages — something users of MySpace, another social network popular with college students, have been doing for a long time. But Facebook users could soon find themselves exhausted by all the new possibilities, according to CNET News: More than 1,500 new applications have already been developed in just about a month. That’s exciting news for Facebook officials, but the site’s co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg, says Facebook Platform could make the site harder to control. —Brock Read
Categories: Student-Life, Company-Watch
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