RIP Facebook (Part 2)
A while back we posted this. It was a short blog about the privacy furore on Facebook and whether this has any major long-term implications. Well apparently it does. Serious ones. This article is an interesting read about people deserting FB in their droves in the US. It goes on to highlight another crucial challenge facing the social media behemoth: the fatigue factor. The most exciting thing about the internet – and the most challenging aspect for an agency too – is the rapidity at which things change in the virtual world. Every day brings a new tweet or email with something to look at. And in among the keyboard cats and Sad Keanus, there’s a wealth of new social media initiatives. Diaspora is coming. We mentioned Social Seek a couple of posts back. There’s also Bongal, which aims to link you with people that you actually share interests with – rather than just the gigantic gallimaufry that Facebook has become. And what about you? Aren’t you just the teeniest bit bored with wasting your time looking at pictures of people you don’t know on holiday? Or reading that Bob has had a great weekend? It’s like being trapped at a school reunion with the person you never really liked the first time around. Virtual Purgatory. So although this is just one person’s private opinion from within Chemistry (one person that just happens to have the blog password) I would stick my neck out and predict that it won’t be long before we see FB enter a terminal decline.
Talking of which, here’s another interesting article about how people are receiving suggestions from FB about contacts they may wish to ‘reconnect with.’ Which is fine. Except when that person is dead. Doh!