MySpace, yes. It came from a very corporate background. But Facebook really did start as a small little network for Harvard people that spread like mad. (I think if Zuckerberg had really been out to make a billion dollars with Facebook, he'd have been much better prepared with an advertising solution than he was. Considering how good the Facebook team is with innovating and expanding themselves, advertising dropped the ball - I think because they didn't prepare any solutions ahead of time.)
The "friends list" is exactly what I dislike about such systems. Especially on Facebook, where systems already exist to handle such systems benevolently. I don't think that counts as SEO, though, since there's nothing SEO to putting a page on a private network. That opposed to Twitter, where some people link to every single blog post they write to boost their link status. (Then again: I don't understand Twitter and probably never will.)
The "friends list" is exactly what I dislike about such systems. Especially on Facebook, where systems already exist to handle such systems benevolently. I don't think that counts as SEO, though, since there's nothing SEO to putting a page on a private network. That opposed to Twitter, where some people link to every single blog post they write to boost their link status. (Then again: I don't understand Twitter and probably never will.)