The rapidly growing popularity of social networking site Facebook has sparked a boom in the user uptake of one its new applications, Reuters reports.Online music community iLike has experienced an unprecedented boom in activity, following its recent twinning with the highly regarded social site.
Reports have revealed that iLike has come from relative obscurity to be recognised as the fastest-growing digital music service on the net.
Information requests are being put forward by record companies every half-hour and the site is registering one million new users every week.
Facebook has developed from being a social networking site predominantly used by college students and university graduates to the fastest-growing site of its kind.
MySpace's dominant position in the social networking market has been slashed by Facebook recently, with the latter's audience numbers soaring by 523 per cent in the past six months, compared to MySpace's growth of just 28 per cent over the same period.
Since Facebook opened its doors to outside applications and developers in May, the iLike service has enjoyed similarly booming popularity and user uptake.
"iLike is actually better on Facebook than as a stand-alone application," said iLike chief executive Ali Partovi.
"It's a little sad to have to admit that your own website isn't as good as the thing you build for Facebook, but there's a community already there. That's impossible to re-create on your own."
