Posted on 01/03/2012 6:31:35 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Getting in at the initial offering price will be next to impossible. By the time you get in the boom will be headed to bust as everyone tries to make their $$.
I enjoy facebook, but like many things in this life, it can be a big waste of time (no different than people who golf their lives away). Facebook is pretty invasive though, so I imagine some other thing will eventually surpass it.
Exactly. It's just asking for identy theft. Hey world, here's my life for any and all to use as they wish.
Something else I'm seeing is that young people are using FB and texting as a way of NOT communicating. They can't commit to a long conversation anymore. They can't be anywhere without texting so they aren't interacting with where they are or who they're with at the moment. All they know is a few quick keystrokes. Nothing emotional. Nothing face to face. Nothing invested.
Facebook is a fantastic tool for Conservatives to spread our message and organize resistance. It’s not going anywhere.
I have no issue with the fact something will eventually replace Facebook. It’s not “if” but “when”. But, Facebook has its legitimate uses, and that’s what I was pointing out. If I do make a post on my page, it’s not something I’m worried some prospective employer will find to be a problem; I’m retired, and I’m too smart to do that anyway. I only post what I want people to see.
But it’s use goes way beyond the personal fluff. It lets groups and organizations interact in a far more timely fashion than email, and that’s a good thing. It also allows them to get recognition (if they want) or keep things private. I’ve been a slow learner with Facebook, not being a very convivial type. But I’ve come to see its strengths, and am trying to use them to advantage.
I refuse to risk my career and personal relationships over this stupid website...
I’ll second that! As a high school teacher, I have to be ever vigilant about my identity and reputation. Why would I want to put myself out there on FB for high school students to post rude comments or my employer to misinterpret something I write that could cost me my job? There have already been a number of teacher firings over FB and other social network postings.
I tell my college age daughter constantly to be ever vigilant about her FB pages - I understand one of the first things prospective employers do is look through a prospective employee’s FB page and postings. Remember the IDIOT in the police academy who posted topless pictures of herself? Ended her career on the spot.
You can’t imagine how texting has changed classroom behavior! Kids text any/all day, as much as they can get away with, sneak it under their desks so I can’t see. I HATE playing the roll of policeman and confiscating cell phones but I have to when kids are told repeatedly to put the **** phone away. My son’s friend had his SAT test declared null and void after he pulled out a cell phone AFTER his test was turned in — didn’t matter, the rule is NO cell phones around standardized tests.
Now, I tell kids who won’t stop with the cell phones to go and sit in the lunch area and text to their heart’s content so I can spend time teaching rather than taking valuable classroom time screeching away about putting cell phones away.
Also, in kid’s compositions I’m seeing things like U for you, g/f, b/f (girl friend, boy friend), KK (for OK) and, of course OMG and other Internet acronyms that I’ve told students repeatedly NOT TO USE (to little/no avail). Wait until employers see them all over job applications.
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Reason #1 is the only one of those that’s even remotely true. There will always be something new, the new will find a hook, and the masses will flock to it. What the hook is who can say (the fun part about hooks is nobody sees them coming).
There’s a certain point in hitting the masses where the age group stop mattering. FB, with 1/9 of the planet signed on, is way past that point. An advertiser will hit lots of members of their target market on FB, just because there’s so many people.
He makes good points, but the example of MySpace’s annihilation by Facebook is flawed. MySpace, with its damn-near-impossible-to-read white/yellow lettering on black background, was designed for 15 year olds while adults absolutely hated it. Vast majorities of the world were never going to use MySpace. That nice, easy-to-read Facebook would wipe it out did not exactly require a crystal ball.
And for other, even more important reasons.
Kind of a side issue but I've never seen a single ad of any kind as part of gmail and use it every day. Guess it's because of adblock, noscript and using the slow interface.
Your whole comment is excellent but I am already seeing the same devolution of writing style in twenty somethings, probably including some of those younger hiring managers.
Or college admissions personnel, for that matter.
Applications for social networking will come and go. They are based on the technology of the day, and the days change.
What will not disappear, ever, is online social networking.
Something else has already come along.
Google plus. Very popular with the younger set that is unhappy with the privacy issues of facebook.
So if you want to discuss your massive New Year's morning hangover with your circle of friends, you never have to worry about your family or co-workers reading about it. Unless of course, you have certain of them added to your "friends" circle or you cross-post into the other circles.
I'm still feeling my way around Google Plus but already it seems like a much better method of social networking. Also (so far), the people on it seem to be a little more mature and intelligent than what you find on Facebook. My cousins with their cat pictures and endless invitations to stupid games and family trees haven't shown up yet!
What! You don’t get into the family tree thing?? It can be very interesting.
BTW - If you are an Adams, a la John Quincy, we are probably related! How about that! LOL
Not many people know it but Samuel Morse was a famous painter before he helped invent the telegraph and the code that bears his name. Small world.
Could be. Everybody seemed to be related back then.
“Have you seen what Gmail looks like these days?: I’ve never seen a single ad of any kind as part of gmail”
I use it all the time and have no ads on the screen. I didn’t install any add-ons to Chrome browser.
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