On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Damon Dimmick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Genuine question: People are saying that facebook is obsolete.... Why? > What supplanted it? It's not a issue on replacement, but more on if it make people's everyday better, for e.g., by google, you could easily searching for the information you want, by amazon, you want to get the object you interested. By facebook, you want to have friends, yes, keep relationships ( for what?), And it's good to have keep friendship and share experience, and that's all. The sites does good job on this, and it's not enough to say it's a game changing stuff.
What'll be next phenomenon? It definitely should be some one that make people's life better, like google dose. Like a better traveling experience, a better city life, a life long better education , etc. And safe food service ( for e.g. , taking into account current food safety issue from China and Japan) , a better energy friendly living system, etc. The chances are open. Cheers, -- Jarod > > jeff lippiatt wrote: >> Weighing in. >> Facebook became obsolete a while ago. Soon to become the relic of >> Yahoo, aka Geocities. >> All of these sites will eventually fail unless they address something >> of value. Currently they are all riding the plummet of social >> entertainment. They have mainly ignored their core audiences: Myspace >> was music, Facebook was college students and grad students. Both have >> annoying advertisements that have no context...just battering people >> over the head to make advertising money on which is steadily >> declining...How long do you really need to stay on either site to >> catch up? Not long, because all of the new changes you can get a >> snapshot of everything now in under 5 minutes. That leaves no >> incentive to stay on the site. All the widgets and mini-apps that bog >> down both sites are 99% pointless because people just add and delete >> them sometimes within hours or minutes. >> In summation, you can't please everyone any of the time. They >> abandoned their niches and have been sliding downhill since. Social >> entertainment is not robust enough to keep users online and engaged. >> I use both Myspace and Facebook, but am not pleased with either. I >> use them mostly for keeping up with friends and birthdays and posting >> pictures of my some what ridiculous but fun cooking antics. >> >> >> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . >> Posted from the new ixda.org >> http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=33019 >> >> >> ________________________________________________________________ >> Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! >> To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe >> List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines >> List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help >> > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- http://designforuse.blogspot.com/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
