Comments on: Facebook: An Internet unto Itself

By: Add Link

Add Link — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:39:37 +0000

I think the main problem with any social networking sites is the ads, everywhere you look on these sites there seems to be adverts, even to the extent of clicking on one by accident.

I would like to see more sites which are more easier to work with, less adverts and geared towards the consumer rather than profits.

By: Dion

Dion — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:46:17 +0000

Some people use facebook to keep in touch with their families, relatives, and friends. So far facebook is an effective social network as well as a media to build connections among people through their data and stories. Perhaps, facebook is still the famous social media until there is another better one which can replace it. Either a local media or world wide media, people need a tool to get to know each other activities.
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By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:44:29 +0000

Facebook was more enjoyable in the beginning when you could actually keep track of friends. Now my daily feed is full of self promoting bloggers, companies and other ads. I still use it but only to look at photos.

By: Luci

Luci — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:09:22 +0000

I second Jaan, a shocking number of my friends also just don’t even check their e-mail exactly because they can use Facebook for quicker and easier communication. You even know when somebody has got in touch because you get a helpful red notification! Whilst Facebook could go the same way as Myspace, as Broadband said, it doesn’t look that way at the moment at least.
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By: Anand

Anand — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:03:49 +0000

The term ’subset’ is so vageue. Well, if Facebook is a subset of the internet, so is MySpace, so is my little blog. It doesn’t actually mean everything.

And as for the Facebook craze, there is no data-locking exactly happening in any social network, except for your friends. For myself, yes, I have been using Facebook more regularly in the past couple of months than before. That’s because I just moved and I have all my new friends of the past year on Facebook. I am not in as much touch with the older friends and hence I am no longer active on orkut..

For true online social networking, I still see the Instant Messengers as the key…
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By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:51:01 +0000

i liked Facebook back when it was small, and i like it now, when it’s big (and going to keep getting bigger/more important)

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By: Jaan Kanellis

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:22:32 +0000

Couldn’t agree more. I personally know of 8 (non-marketing) friends that gave up on email because their FB reach was strong enough to deliver their messages. Now these where normal average users of email, FB and the internet in general. Not power users like us. I was shocked when I kept hearing over and over, “I don’t check my email much anymore. Why should I, my friends are on FB?”

Take a step back and think about how many of your emails are to clients and friends. You might be shocked yourself to see the ratio has greatly diminished over the past year.
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By: adda

adda — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:56:40 +0000

Iv never really got on with facebook, find it really hard to navigate and have problems loading the page.

By: Aaron Wyssmann

Aaron Wyssmann — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:15:53 +0000

I think you’re right on. There are so many people hanging out on FB and in my opinion it is the “bomb” of all the social networks. You can really reach out and connect with people there. I like Twitter for the small conversations but FB rocks for really getting to know someone.

By: Taylor Adair

Taylor Adair — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:42:36 +0000

I totally disagree with Broadband. Facebook is easy enough and shakes things up enough to stay the frontrunner. A lot of people today use the Internet just for social purposes and, mostly Facebook. So therefore, I do think Facebook is an Internet unto itself.

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By: David Leonhardt

David Leonhardt — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:52:19 +0000

I had never thought of it this way. I wonder if this could be the way Twitter and YouTube could monetize…and increase their own traffic , as well. Instead of “the Internet”, we might have “the Internets”.
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By: Broadband NI

Broadband NI — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:28:01 +0000

Personally I think Facebook is overyhyped and in all honesty can see it going the way of myspace…..unless of course they keep shaking things up and building relationships with other major web properties e.g. twitter……and more interestingly amazon….