At 08:36 AM 7/01/2014, Frank O'Connor you wrote: >I'm pretty sure that the 'powers that be' will eventually realise >that if nobody trusts the medium and its major players, then the >likelihood of the medium becoming the next Golden Goose goes out the >door ... together with all that lovely moolah that everyone has been >anticipating from the eggs ... and that the intelligence agencies >will be told to pull in their heads and become more targetted and >discrete with the data they collect - because money talks.
In a word: Facebook. Generational change is going to kill it. An article in the last couple weeks exposed that the younger ones are off to the next new thing. It's the oldies who were convinced by the early adopters to learn it and now have stuck with it. That group is a self-limiting market by virtue of not being immortal. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [email protected] Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. ~Margaret Atwood, writer _ __________________ _ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
