I'll I'm saying is that people should try it before they knock it.
Maybe they have a different problem...
Posted on 09/22/2010 5:57:46 PM PDT by blam
Social networking is here to stay for sure, just as the framework of how AOL ran is stronger than ever. The companies come and go, but the general user concepts will only grow better.
I guess I just don’t understand the business model...
My family keeps up with one another on facebook.
Using firefox, adblock, flashblock, and noscript, I see no ads and I pay no money.
So where does the $$$$$$$ value come from?
Touche! As a funny side note, my parents are still with AOL...in 2010. Can’t dissuade them.
**Selling the formerly private information of 500,000,000 users?**
More and more people are becoming aware of this - and the increased risk of identity theft.
I think Rush Limbaugh was surprised at how few of his listeners (out of the total) signed up on FB to see his wedding photos.
I won’t sign up for FB for any reason.
Govt control. Insane how 500 million people will put all their personal information on the web. Stupid.
For now he has the killer ap. A lot of people thought My Space was the killer. If a better version comes along - people will move. My Space was “it” then kids thought it was uncool and fled to Face Book.
Better than email?
You give up control of all of your messages, and cannot even export them (to the best of my knowledge).
Would NEVER want to have important messages in that system....and I avoid it at all costs.
IMO, it is silly.....has it’s pluses of course. But it is much ado about nothing.
Good for him. If you can make some dough off of something 3 guys in India could clone in a few hours so be it. Yea, I know, the 3 guys in India would not get far because Facbook is kind of like the early Ford Motor Company. Ford, of course, had a monster market share because they were the only game in town. That market share was eventually whittled away by the competition. But, unlike Ford and its brick and mortar Facebook and google et al who are first to make their markets big keep them growing and keep a huge market share to themselves. Even though, as I point out above, what they do is no big technological deal.
Changing things a bit. Wasn’t this guy recently sued for a mint off some contract he had in school? A contract that if enforced would strip him of most of his equity?
I think these new ads for Sprint are an interesting social commentary as to where all this electronic communication has taken our culture: breaking up with a boyfriend, firing an employee or letting a football player know his career is over is all text fodder. (Not to worry, Sprint doesn’t charge extra.)
Only unless someone comes up with something better.
Facebook is far too integrated into everything from phones, TVs and PCs to be surpassed.
And is too much a part of many lives to just be abandoned.
I just talked to my wife, niece, saw pictures of my brother’s baby, saw a video of an old friend from High School, and wished my uncle a happy birthday. All in the past 60 minutes.
And I didnt have to make one phone call.
Facebook is a miracle.
I find this technology a thousand times more exciting than Facebook:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbndZtkfcqs
Agreed. The dynamic of the wold changes drastically when you are selling a service that doesn’t require the production of a physical item or the distribution of it. Given the moment to moment relationship existing between the user and the provider a service like face book could, conceivably, be put out of business in just a few hours. Although the demise would probably be somewhat slower . . . a la myspace.
Is it all bad? No. I get regular videos/pics/texts from people I care about. Sometimes it's of a life changing moment like a birth, kid's first words, or other event. Go back 20 years and maybe there would be a letter with a few pics in it a few weeks later. Now it's instant.
All of this can be a good thing. Your examples are of the bad. Since we were around during the transition, maybe it's up to us to preserve the old habits and embrace the good new ones; just as our ancestors did with radio and tv.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Donates $100 Million To Fix Newark New Jersey Public Schools
Well, thats a quick $100 mil down a rat hole.
Call me crazy, but am I the only one who thinks it is foolish to buy a drink without getting an actual drink?
What is the point of that?????
And am I the only one who does not like hearing from people I would rather forget from my past?
I would much rather be “doing” things than chatting inane banter with people who really have nothing better to do.
If I want to talk to you, I will drop you an email.....I don’t see that changing for me anytime soon.
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