Facebook Launches Subscribe

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Facebook has launched a Subscribe button that lets you "Twit" the public updates of others, regardless of whether you’re Facebook friends- anyone you like :)


Response to Google+?
“They were awakened to the fact that they could be another MySpace; so they suddenly got very aggressive on moving the ball forward so they couldn’t get caught"-Analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group in Silicon Valley.
Myspace became the most popular social networking site in the United States in June 2006, a position that it held throughout 2007 until 2008. However by April 2008, according to comScore, Myspace was overtaken internationally by its main competitor, Facebook, based on monthly unique visitors (Wikipedia).
This move could be also a response to the annoyance of Facebookers of the constant overflowing of status updates from the user's friends. Unless,a user has gone through a long process of creating another separate Facebook Groups.On the otherhand, Google+ already responded to Facebook's problem. Google+ stressed the ability it gives users to separate online friends and family into different “Circles,” or networks, and to share information only with members of a particular circle.Google+ says,"The easiest way to share some things with college buddies, others with your parents, and almost nothing with your boss".


Bye-bye Farmville Updates.
With the Subscribe button Facebookers can modulate the constant flood of status updates and choose someone to follow - like Twitter. For occasional users like me, who uses Facebook to keep up with friends and view photos they've uploaded, we could block aerson's update from my Newsfeed. No more Farmville updates and I'm feeling blah blah blah rith now thingy. Users could also control what type of updates to see from a person and how often.


Will this find many followers as Twitter?
It could be. With its 750 million active users to date, it is not impossible.