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Zuck has never had an original idea in his head, ever. His initial claim to fame, prior to FB, at least on college campus' was making a "hot or not" clone utilizing photos from various Harvard facebooks. Every idea since then has been someone elses or he's tried to take the Apple approach of "let someone else do it first, then we improve on it" except he has never been able to nail down the second part. The only reason FB became successful was the initial exclusivity and it filled the gap of a post 20-something myspace/ICQ/AOL IM world.
At the time the idea was super innovative and it was fun to see your classmate’s photos.
Was it really that innovative? It was just myspace for college students
It was innovative because it helped you meet up with your real-life college friends. MySpace and Friendster had you adding people manually.