social networking

…does anybody care? I fell hard for the social networking craze. I joined so many sites I lost track of most of them. Two or three years ago, each site promised to serve a new community, or niche market, and was trumpeted by the media as a novel, near miraculous invention. Every site was based [...]

UPDATE 9/24: After this meme, a similar one cropped up — institutional memory on Twitter is short — called #aftersex. You get the idea. 3wordsaftersex, by the way, is still being tweeted, months later. _____________________ ORIGINAL POST: If ever there was a meme made for Twitter it was #3wordsaftersex (yes, that’s right, “three words after [...]

It seems this is really an internal problem, but could this mean that Facebook has been overvalued all along? Is this drag down from the overall economy or a Facebook-specific situation? Is the site losing growth-potential? These are all important questions, because it seems Facebook has two choices: a Google-like behemoth that dominates social-networking, swallowing [...]