Comments on: Facebook Suffers its First Drop in Unique Monthly Visitors

By: Jaylenwv

Jaylenwv — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:18:58 +0000

thats it, dude

By: Widgets – what are they and what do they do? | Technogumption

Widgets – what are they and what do they do? | Technogumption — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:18:00 +0000

[...] and social networking Widgets took off in terms of popularity when Facebook released their development pack allowing anyone to create a widget for their users. The allure of [...]

By: Introduction to social networking | Technogumption

Introduction to social networking | Technogumption — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:53:17 +0000

[...] being faced Last week I reported about Facebook’s first drop in unique monthly visitors. As we can see from the table above, Facebook is the second largest social networking website. [...]

By: Charles

Charles — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:47:16 +0000

I’d rather say people finally become aware of facebook’s vacuity.

By: Curation - The latest in internet buzz | Technogumption

Curation - The latest in internet buzz | Technogumption — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:32:20 +0000

[...] MySpace where loads of profiles can be created and it is full of spam to the likes of Facebook (though the rapid increase in numbers of applications has made it more spammy) and LinkedIn, where only real profiles are allowed. Here spam is reduced as people are held [...]

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:22:37 +0000

Moving from facebook woudln’t be a major effort if a facebook data – to – (Open Social or similar) exporting tool was made. Which wouldn’t be very hard considering Facebooks support for apps.

Gyutae – Can you remember what the web was like 5 years ago? *Everything* can change in 5 years and tbh, I hope it does.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:14:58 +0000

Gyutae – I must say I still use Facebook as I am so established there. Once you have collected all your friends in one place, getting up and moving is a major effort. Like you say, barriers to entry are pretty high right now. There are many new startups focusing on social networks though. A network which brought together other networks would be king, but how likely is it existing networks would allow this?

By: Gyutae Park

Gyutae Park — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:06:35 +0000

Hey Tom,
I don’t think Facebook is going anywhere for at least the next 5 years. They’ve developed a huge brand for themselves and it’s extremely difficult for another company to overthrow them because of the barriers to entry they’ve established. Facebook is the king of social networking right now and a little setback isn’t going to tank them.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:05:43 +0000

Novelty wears off. Which is great, it means the web keeps sicking up exciting new things. Maybe next time it’ll be a social network without a shockingly awful attitude to ‘private’ data.

Orkut is big in France, I believe.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:19:14 +0000

Steve thats pretty much the way I think it is going. Facebook is the biggest here in the UK, so it has a pretty good chance of making things work.

I had not heard of Orkut.

Myspace like you said is more popular among youths than the older generations. It will be interesting if these people continue to use myspace as they do get older, or just move on to something new.