The Star of the Game

Star and Game, both words highly appropriate when it comes to describe today's and probably near future's top online money making machinery...the Social Networks. Even though they've been around for quite a long time, the Social Networks really kicked off as a Marketing tool after Facebook's boom.

I do remember the existence of communities of users with similar interests, email lists, forums, chats, and sites that offered a wide variety of free communication tools way before Facebook came into being. However for some strange reason Facebook along with a few others like Twitter and more business-oriented networking sites like LinkedIn really made the grade.

Why are those the "Stars of the Game", being that they did provide similar services to previously existing sites, and did not come up with really new ideas per se?....Unanswered Question! I don't have the answer for that, but again they really were the stars and they really won the game from the very beginning, unlike others, and I include myself, that just play the game...will we ever be stars?....we shall play and see....