Comments on: Anyone Tired of Facebook Yet?

By: Mark Evans - Web 2.0 and Short Attention Spans

Mark Evans - Web 2.0 and Short Attention Spans — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:21:03 +0000

[...] wrote a post earlier this week about being tired of [...]

By: Mark Evans

Mark Evans — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:08:53 +0000

George: You make some good points about what I describe as being “too close to the fire”, which means you’re so close to the action you forget there are many other people who are just catching on to what’s “hot”

Alx: My apologies for the wrong URL to your blog. It’s been fixed now.

By: Denis

Denis — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:49:19 +0000

This isn’t a bandwagon that you need to jump off. If you get sick of logging into facebook every 15 minutes like you used to do, then.. don’t, and start logging in every week. Your friend requests will still keep going up.

And why “switch” between two social networking services? Why not have 2 or 5? Certainly don’t need to check it very often.

By: George Tsiolis

George Tsiolis — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:58:14 +0000

Hey, Mark. I’ll take an opposing view here and say you are a victim of being in the 99th percentile of web abilities. As a result, you dive into stuff quickly, absorb it, use it to its max - and then get bored with it.

My business partner is the exact same way, so anytime we speak about mass consumer stuff I always end up telling him “you are not the masses”.

Mark, you are not the masses.

The masses are still in the early stages of Facebookitis and, therefore, still in love with it. I can tell you that many business people outside of the tech world are completely unaware of FB….let alone “over it”.

Your web abilities are a curse

I played golf with a couple of guys that shot the lights out. Literally, they would drive, approach and putt for birdie almost every time. The problem is, they weren’t having any fun. The excitement of making a great shot was gone. Golf had become mechanical. I immediately decided that I would never allow myself to become that good of a golfer. I still love the excitement of making the odd birdie, loooong putt or a great approach close to the pin.

I feel sorry about the fact you will probably never get that same excitement from the web again. You’re too good and too fast. I can’t foresee how any new web tools/sites/apps could satisfy you for very long.

Best,
George

By: Linker Barn: July 27, 2007

Linker Barn: July 27, 2007 — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:00:02 +0000

[...] tired of Facebook yet? Please make it [...]

By: Jerry Hung

Jerry Hung — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:42:54 +0000

I totally agree, the Facebook fever has calmed down, after everyone has invited everyone

I dump group photos there, wrote here and there like email, group trip plan discussion, that’s about it.

I confess: I still do scout Marketplace whenever I can, after picking up some sweet deals including Wii~~ BEFORE all those “Free Laptop” spams show up

By: Magnus

Magnus — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:58:57 +0000

I use it like email now, and a place to dump photos, the let’s freak people out from 15 years ago phase is over.
Why all the hate though? I know society loves to shoot down pop culture phenoms. Like the Iphone, people could not wait to bash it, they started bashing it before it was released to the public.

I think when mainstream media covers a trend to death, the hate starts, the law suites start flying and the bandwagon grows like the my disdain for the word “Blogosphere”.

Hello, Web 2.0, anyone home?? anyone?

By: Chris Clarke

Chris Clarke — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:20:54 +0000

I wrote about Facebook fairly recently, and I’d post a link but I and I’ve become entirely bored with it. You can only stalk people so much! I find it useful for some things-like organizing small get-togethers with “events” and sharing pictures with friends and family- but there are so many things you can do with it that there’s no way one person can possibly use all of them.

I don’t spend much time on the site- and never really did until the site became so popular that you got a friend request every fifteen minutes, which kept bringing you back to the site- so after a sudden surge of popularity, what is going to keep bringing people back?

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:17:36 +0000

You think? Personally I’m still trying to convince non-Facebook-enabled friends to join FB, because it really does save an order of magnitude of time when trying to keep in touch with friends, organize events, and other social activities. Even if the faddiness of it fades, it still remains an incredibly useful tool!