04 February 2009

Five years of Facebook. How will it last five more? | Media | guardian.co.uk

Five years of Facebook. How will it last five more? | Media | guardian.co.uk:
Jemima Kiss writes in the Guardian:
"Facebook has many challenges: the battle against social networking fatigue, information overload, the migration of influential early adopters to more specialist networks like Twitter and the intensifying scrutiny of its plans to make money."

Technology is all about change, but will change come due to "networking fatigue"? Bobbie Johnson gives some details about what this might be also in the Guardian Technology Blog:
Listen. I have blog. I use Twitter. I idly flick through lists of people I'd forgotten I ever knew on Facebook. I've even got a MySpace page, although I don't like to talk about it. They are great ways of connecting people, and they're very exciting when you start using them, because they allow virtual contact in ways that are analogous to - if not the same as - real life. You know, communicate with people. That old thing.

Perhaps what we all need is a lesson in setting boundaries on social networking sites, like this one from Nick O'Neill from allfacebook.com: 10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook user should know