About face
Dec 4th, 2007 by robynjay
Facebook seems to getting a lot of bad press of late. Social advertising and the move by Mark Zuckerberg to open it up to outside programmers to spam the network with widgets clearly gets up the nose of many users, yet it remains the #1 choice for many.
I’ve come across this Slideshare presentation which offers a good capture of the Facebook phenomenon…
However in this article Social Graph-iti the Economist points to forecasts that suggest it may not be #1 for long - that people want to connect with a chosen few and not be spammed by random friend-requests. They suggest that the future of social networking will not be one big social graph but instead myriad small communities on the internet to replicate the millions that exist offline; a social network for each circle of friends.
What do you think?
I don’t think my breakfast would be the same without all the facebook bacn!
The potential uses of service like ning to connect and keep learners connected before during and after are something I want to explore but facebook just doesn’t seem like the medium to do this - it feels too much like a toy and not like a tool.