Facebook networks are great way to connect with people in your city, country, area, or topic of interest, and C|net is reporting that Facebook will be discontinuing network pages soon. I have confirmed that this is indeed true as the following message now appears on my facebook account…
Network Pages will be discontinued soon
Facebook will soon be removing Network Pages from the site. Please keep this in mind when communicating with others on the Wall and on the discussion board. You can use Groups to connect with the people around you.
This announcement by Facebook is hard to understand. There must be a very good reason for it, at least in Facebooks eyes (pun intended:). I’m more than curious to know exactly what the reason is, because it is hard to imagine why they would remove such a useful feature from their popular network.
The reason for the change may simply be to consolidate the now separate networks and groups, making the new groups communication system even larger and more powerful. But the skeptic in my says there is something else behind the move but only time will tell. In the meantime, here’s a Facebook parody from sketch group Idiots Of Ants, definitely worth a look if you need a laugh…
2 responses so far ↓
1 james // May 17, 2008 at 3:47 am
its possible that they’re doing this because of the ammount of server space that is needed to keep facebook running. they’re already having to purchase a load of new servers because of all the space that is needed to store all the data which makes up facebook. its probs to reduce the ammount of space that is needed to run facebook because it costs a lot of money to keep it running
2 Brandon Schlinker // Jul 17, 2008 at 1:18 am
James, I’m confident your wrong. That doesn’t mean that other individuals haven’t / won’t reach the same conclusion as you regarding this — but just because a large group of people reach the same answer doesn’t mean it is correct.
If Facebook was concerned with the amount of storage space they were using, they would be limiting the number of picture albums or something similar. Removing the network pages, which are dynamically generated and probably take a few GBs of storage on a SQL server somewhere is nothing compared to the total amount of data which Facebook stores.
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