MG Seigler on Facebook Lite:
Perhaps most importantly, Chougle notes, “And let me tell you it’s so much damn faster than the normal Facebook.”
A Facebook Fairy Tale, narrated by yours truly:
There was once a small service that people loved with great fervor and used constantly. It grew to an unimaginable size; the creators were astounded at how many people had joined in so little of a time. Much celebration occured, and happiness was felt by all.
Then, the feature requests came.
The users cried: “We want more USELESS FEATURES, please!”
Then the board chimed in: “Make it more like INSERT COMPETITOR HERE; that’ll stimulate growth!”
Then the investors called out and said: “Needs more integration. Let’s buy HOT UP-AND-COMER and shoehorn it on to ours. Then it’ll have twice the features!”
So, they implemented each and every idea. Much fanfare came from the armchair analysts and their most loyal users as they eagerly waited for the release.
It came—but, despite their work and determination to implement everything that was thrown at them, no one wanted to use it.
It had become too slow, too complex and cluttered. The core features, the ones that attracted the users in the beginning, were lost behind some menu or hidden behind some obscure icon.
It was a sad time.
The Feature Creep™ had caught them.
The end.
So remember, kids: do A few things well and work at it until it’s perfect.
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