On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:13 PM, ravi <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not sure I understand the idea behind Twitter either (though I posted > the info at the start of this thread). Facebook is of value at least for > staying connected to friends and family. Beyond that, organising and so on, > I don't know. I don't think Facebook is transitory: there is a genuine need > for an online resource for individuals to share information, photographs, > and so on. Facebook may be a poor implementation, but the idea I think is > here to stay.
This idea has been around for a while in the form of personal web pages etc. I remember sites like fortunecity.com and geocities.com in the 1990's that tried to do essentially the same thing. Not sure why they failed to catch on in the way that Myspace and Facebook did. -raghu. -- Seeing is deceiving. It's eating that's believing. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
