Category: Geeks r Us
I found this article, and thought it would be a good topic for discussion on here.
http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2014/02/06/why-social-networks-like-facebook-fail/
What do you all think?
Interesting, though I suspect it's too early and social networking too new (even though it has been around for 15 years or so) to make the claims set out in the article. I suspect the fall of mySpace and others had more to do with the rise of Facebook than it did with having to screen posts because of an ever growing network of friends/followers. Facebook is far bigger and people typically have more friends than they ever did on Myspace, and while the stats may be falling off, if the article is to be believed, it still seems pretty popular.
Very interesting. I agree with what they say here. Plus, we live in a culture that puts a premium on being offended.
It makes a lot of sense. I find myself on Facebook less and less over time. I don't read the statuses or look at the photos as much as I used to. Now I just use it more so for messaging people. I think if they did a study to see how long people stayed on Facebook, they would have to take in to consideration whether or not people leavve things like their phones logged on to Facebook, because I have seen friends that idle for hours on Facebook and I figure it wouldn't be possible for them to sit at their computer like a zombie and keep refreshing it continuously. But you never know.