sounds more like personal choice. Facebook has huge collections of people from many different countries/continents and perspectives. But like like some people won't ever own a TV, maybe some people don't resonate with Facebook. By no means do I see this as obsolete.
First of all, if you aren't on Facebook where do you go? Yes, there is MySpace, right? But that is just Facebook with a different brand (or visa versa), but the very concepts of Facebook and MySpace are really the same which is social networking around social, family and professional. Unlike LinkedIn which is purely for professional social networking from the ground up. But if I wasn't on Facebook, I can't just GO to Google. Google doesn't have a social network. Orkut is not a social network as there is no deep linking, statusing, etc. within it. Its just a collection of boards and the only social aspect of it is that you had to be invited into it. Like thats hard! So no one has still convinced me that FB is obsolete. It might be one day, just like its predecessors (Prodigy > CompuServ > AOL) are today, but I don't see it obsolete NOW, nor do I see any big competition looming. I do not see Facebook as Alta Vista, but rather I see Facebook as Google and maybe there is a Cuil out there or a Vivivisimo (search competitors of Google) . FB still has tremendous critical mass. BTW, Google:Facebook what Yahoo:MySpace (if we were to continue this metaphor and people were wondering where Yahoo fit into all this). -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
