“One of the things you learn living in Silicon Valley your whole life is how fast things can change. Big companies can come and go in extremely short periods of time. Yahoo! was once what Google is today,” Ben Bajarin writes for TIME Magazine. “MySpace was once what Facebook is today. Innovation happens everywhere and waits for no company.”
“I recently polled almost 500 high school students in San Jose, and shockingly, not all of them were on Facebook,” Bajarin writes. “But perhaps not surprisingly, nearly all who were said they were basically bored with the site and had been using it significantly less.”
Bajarin writes, “Now, depending on how heavy of a technology user you are, you may find the idea of Facebook on its way out surprising or not surprising. For example, many of the young people I surveyed conveyed that they were ready for something else. Call me crazy, but I firmly believe that Facebook has either peaked or is on the cusp of peaking.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
When I first signed up for Facebook I was able to find a few friends from high school that I had lost contact with. Since the, family, extended family, people I don’t know, and people I’ve met maybe once in my life have requested me as a “friend.” I was fairly conservative in who I added or accepted as a friend.
What really began annoying me about FB are posts such as “If you are against child abuse, keep this as your status for the next three hours” and List the first three things that you think about me and then make it your status so I can reply to you.”
I get event requests all the time, requests to join FarmVille and a number of other things that just continue to annoy me about FB. I know I can go in and turn a lot of it off but for me it is just easier to not log in much anymore.
“I recently polled almost 500 high school students in San Jose,”
WTF?
“and shockingly, not all of them were on Facebook”
shockingly? So what, 95% of them were?
I signed onto FB this summer because of my new business and it became part of my job (the whole “social media” thing with FB and Twitter). I’ll admit it helps to connect with certain people in your line of work and shared interests but that’s all I see it useful for. It’s just amazing to see people waste away hours and hours per day on FB. But I don’t know which is worse: hours per day on FB or watching TV.
I think it has definitely peaked or is already in a state of decline. More and more people may still sign up but the amount of time that people will continue to go down. The drain on productivity that FB has on people (both at work and at home) must be enormous. We can’t predict that it will be the next MySpace but it has already lost whatever cache it had. It really is a boring site.
Facebook is far from perfect. However, I would never compare it to the sloppy, over-done, “little kids got into mom’s makeup” of a mess that MySpace is.
Color me skeptical, but I never saw what all the hype about Farcebook was- especially knowing that all kinds of people (including data miners and law enforcement) were/are lurking at all that stuff you post.
I see it as the worst kind of naval gazing…
yawwwn, yes for me it’s gotten quite boring. Maybe because I don’t have 50000 friends following me. Nevertheless, with 800 Mio. users worldwide, I don’t think it will slow down anytime soon!