Shhh! Can you hear a hiss? That's the sound of naughty facts deflating the social networking balloon a tad. Whisper it, but numbers from web analytics outfit comScore have confirmed what the chatter in bars and cafes has been saying for months - people are, just, well, bored of social networks.
The average length of time users spend on all of the top three sites is on the slide. Bebo, MySpace and Facebook all took double-digit percentage hits in the last months of 2007. December could perhaps be forgiven as a seasonal blip when people see their real friends and family, but the trend was already south.
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The average length of time users spend on all of the top three sites is on the slide. Bebo, MySpace and Facebook all took double-digit percentage hits in the last months of 2007. December could perhaps be forgiven as a seasonal blip when people see their real friends and family, but the trend was already south.
View: The full story @ The Reg
all u see now is this stupid apps taking up the whole page, u don't even know what to look at anymore.
~X
At the bottom of your profile click 'Edit Extended Profile'
I'm shocked!
The issue is cyclical demand as with all things in this world. It will level off, but it will still continue to rise in the future since population will continue to increase unless competition comes in or another major trend kick in.
Huge potential + garbage applications = MySpace #2
Personally? I see Facebook staying if they sort it out.
They have the most pointless applications that are just annoying, and take away from photo albums, comments, and other important things i wanna see what friends are doing, not what junk my friends put on their pages
i never saw this coming
wonder what the next social networking fad will be
myfacesterbook.com maybe?
Only have a few Facebook backed Apps. 99% of apps are junk.
Facebook has to see this in their numbers, it's going to start hurting their bottom line soon.
it's a contest to get more friends than all your other friends
That is the most accurate description of facebook I have seen.
Oh, and you can't have music playing in the back of Facebook, that's Myspace, so I'm not sure what you were looking at.
Anyone, this doesn't surprise me at all. I used to use it way more often, but then it just gets boring and it's a more check-your-messages thing once in a while. That's mostly all I use it for, the messaging part.
ROFL. That's the best part. MS also paid off Digg to have Digg use MS's advertizing service over Google's. Digg is going to go the way of the rest of these sites too.
Forums and blogs are what will remain. Who needs a limited page on a network, when you can have your own site? Even Youtube will lose its exclusivity. The one thing we have to watch out for is if the telecoms and the cable industry somehow manage to sabotage net neutrality.
I never really thought of bebo as being that popular to begin with, and myspace is...well it's myspace and that's about enough said.
-Spenser
For the rest of us, Facebook is a social tool - not a toy.
For the rest of us, Facebook is a social tool - not a toy.
Exactly.
I have friends all over the world because I travelled a lot and moved from one country to another. Before there was Facebook, it was pretty challenging to maintain contact with everyone. And oh god, how annoying it was to send the same birthday pictures to my friends only to find out that half of the emails would bounce back. Nowadays, I upload new pics only once and all my friends can see them.
oh yeah and those stupid F&*(in GITS that post the ctrl-f4 or alt-f4 posts that allegedly show you who looks at your profile..... if you do that learn about windows shortcuts.. all your doing is closing the page!!!!
Yea I wish I could still get away with that. I work at a call center now...
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