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Originally Posted by seeric
you know something to interject here.
for the past month i have been hearing different people i know dumping facbook all together. just like shap says, its a cycle. here today gone tomorrow.
i personally got tired of the advertising and annoyances that they kept rolling out to whore out your personal info and bailed 6 months ago. lots of people i know are dropping it, just like they did myspace, friendster, and the ones before that.
everything has a shelf life and everyone has a tolerance and an attention span.
build it. sell it. find the next great hype.
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I believe the thing with all this web2.0 madness is that someone still doesn't have an idea what do they actually offer.
Facebook is a communication gadget and a self promotion tool, nothing more.
One doesn't need to be a genius to observe that anyone using it is essentially focusing on self presentation and the reactions of others on himself.
It's another means of communication between people, and you don't want anyone to mess with your private communication or even with your very own narcistic webspace.
You don't get adverts while talking to anyone on the phone, you don't get anyone selling you shit when talking to a friend, you don't get billboard up your ass while talking to the chick you like, but that's exactly what's happening on "FriendFace".
No one is interested in ads, no one is interested in information they're trying to sell you, people using it are interested in their personal connections, add that the average number of connections makes keeping an eye on all the input impossible.
It's self promotion, communication and having fun, nothing more.
It's here to stay in some form, it will remain a part of the "marketing" mix especially for anyone catering to certain specific preferences, but that's all.
And the more they'll gonna push the sales pitch the more people they'll loose, cause they're interfering with someone's privacy.