I wonder why my pessimistic 3 points post is in the bottom, there are five or so one point post above it.
Well, time for supper. Down vote this one to put the other up.
Facebook hype will fade
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#22Comparing Google with Facebook. I was using google since it was pretty unknown, I think it is still, after all these years, a good tool for searching. I will never use facebook, I think local solutions for meeting people will emerge soon and they will be much more appealing and useful. Facebook only can exists if it can find a way to be a local tool.
I've never met anyone on Facebook, they're all people I knew somehow previous to our friending.
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#23Agree,
Just wonder if all these people were incredibly good at cashing in at the top or the overwhelming tidal wave of news stories about them cashing in is what caused their decline
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#24Stupid title. Doesn't hype always fade, by definition?
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#25facebook growth went something like this: college --> high school --> young adults --> everyone Trendy stuff generally follows the same cascade, more or less, where you don't see college students emulating the dress habits of the elderly. facebook's biggest potential for failure is in not capturing the next generation of young users. The young users pick up some other social network, everyone else follows suit, and f…
My 12 year old brother and all of his friends use Facebook already. Many of them use the mobile site on their iPod touches.
(incidentally, the iPod touch is a great way for Apple to build a userbase among the young)
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#26I really think he doesn't know what he's talking about. Let's look at his qualifications. He's a professor of "Media Studies" at the New School. I think he's going to be taking everything with a lot of lit crit palavering. Myspace to Facebook is a shallow analogy. If we would like to make an analogy with that analogy it would be like comparing Yahoo and Google. Facebook has far exceeded the market penetration of MySp…
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Not to be snarky, but I don't think this is what "begs the question" means:
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/begs.html
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
It continues to be hard for me to envision what that would really look like in practice. I don't mean from a network typology standpoint; I mean how would it look in my browser?
Here is my Appleseed friends list: http://developer.appleseedproject.org/profile/michael.chisar... Keep in mind, this is beta software in active development, so you'll notice a few bugs here and there (and the live server is missing a major update I'm running locally).
Thanks! I'm interested specifically in the day-to-day usage: the situations of signing up, finding/adding my friends, posting statuses, reading and commenting on other peoples', sharing media like photos, etc etc.
So to start with a simple one: how does one add somebody else? Can you just search by name? I'm just having a bit of difficulty imagining how that sort of thing would work well in a truly distributed, federated way. But I haven't done much thought on it so I'm interested to hear.
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#28"This week's news that Goldman Sachs has chosen to invest in Facebook while entreating others to do the same should inspire about as much confidence as their investment in mortgage securities did in 2008."
Well said.
Sounds like a bubble to me.
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#29"We will move on, just as we did from the chat rooms of AOL, without even looking back. When the place is as ethereal as a website, our allegiance is much more abstract than it is to a local pub or gym."
I disagree with this, simply because grandma wasn't on any AOL chat rooms, but she _is_ on Facebook. The only reason I'm on FB is because Aunt Tilly and Uncle Bob and grandma are also on there, and I can connect with them that way, and know what's happening in their lives in real time, instead of seeing them once a year at Christmas.
Grandma isn't going to sign up for IM or get a blog. She's on Facebook.
That's the difference between FB and everything else that came before it. The thing creates its own gravity field that attracts everyone, and as long as everyone I care about is on Facebook, so will I. Even though I really hate the thing.
That's the genius of FB, I think. Hate it or love it.
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#30I don't necessarily agree the article but I'd be interested in hearing opinions on the interesting point the author presents near the end of the article: That social networking sites are like physical social spaces that will rise and fall in popularity.
My personal experience is exactly that. My parents, a grandparent, nieces, nephews, coworkers, bosses, college friends, and everyone in between are now in my network. My status updates are now a megaphone to everyone I've ever had any relationship with and more frighteningly, anyone I ever will have a relationship with in the future. This kind of assemblage is perfect for weddings and funerals, and that's it. For dai…
+1 I stop sharing my opinion with my network because of this same problem (I have clients, close relatives, extended family, etc.). What if I post something that a client finds offensive and leads to business problems that otherwise wouldn't have existed? What if I post something serious for my clients and some jackass high-school friend leaves an embarrassing comment on my status?
Initially, I had to block the ability for people to tag me in photos because I was being used to spam other people's walls, then I had to block other people from posting on my wall, because they would post "funny" stuff that wasn't good for my business-contacts to see. Finally, I started using lists, but having different "personas" for each list was just too much. As a result, I'm slowly letting my profile fade away.