Is Facebook the future of web design?
Posted in Social MediaOk, maybe not all web design and no, I am not scared. But will it be the future for small businesses and start-ups just coming online?
So, how on earth do I draw the conclusion that Facebook could be the future of web design. A couple of points that I draw my crazy idea from:
1. Facebook’s traffic is rising at an extremely fast rate, check compete.com to see how it compares to Google (I also included an another in there for fun).
2. Optimizing for specific keywords on Google is only getting harder and is even more difficult for smaller businesses.
3. Domain names in particular, the .com tld, are harder and harder to come by. In fact there are over 88 million .com’s compared to a mere 13 million .net domains.
4. Facebook recently launched their “Pay with Facebook” feature, how long until there is a Facebook shopping cart for company pages?
5. People say they love choice, but in reality they choose convenience and value (Walmart vs. downtown America). This point is key. People are being bombarded with different search engines, advertisements and more of everything on the web. Facebook solves that problem.
I am not saying the day is here, Facebook has to make some changes for it to really become an option for small business. For example, Facebook needs to allow more customization of the company pages and the ability to remove ads. If Facebook does take this direction I think it will make sense for a lot of small businesses or new start-ups that would not be able to get the traffic elsewhere.
June 25th, 2010 at 9:15 am
Its an interesting thought that Facebook has become the Walmart of the internet. In a way facebook has already started this with the advent of pages. I would love to see more thoughts on the inter-connectivity of the social media web.
Comment by Rick