Facebook and Classifieds?

I recently found an article on the New York Times website that discusses facebook. I’m sure that most of you are familiar with Facebook, and maybe like me, you have wasted several hours on it. In the article, “Facebook to Offer Free Classifieds” by Brad Stone, the idea of adding free classified ads to the website. According to Stone, “Facebook, which has 22 million active users, more than half of them in high school or college, hopes that the new feature will offer yet another reason for users to return to its site regularly, instead of going elsewhere to conduct their Internet business.” Isn’t this the collaboration that Friedman discusses in his book? Facebook has hired people who came up with combining classified adds and the original Facebook to accommodate more people. Mark Zuckerber, Facebook’s founder states, “We don’t try to lock people up or take more of their time, but we try to provide them with easier ways to do the things they want to do on the Internet.” Because people are constantly on the internet, they like their sites to be more accessible and easy to use. The new classified ads on Facebook will allow users to create classified listings in four categories: housing; jobs; for sale, where users can list things like concert tickets and used bikes; and “other,” a catch-all that could include things like solicitations for rides home for the holidays.” This is an interesting article. Check it out.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/business/11facebook.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin