Comments on: 2008 Was the Year of Social Networking

By: nancy

nancy — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:07:59 +0000

I know that I am the exception – my rather elderly age may be the reason for that (60 yo)-although I am a working baby boomer who is up to date technologically speaking. Yet frankly I think that Facebook is the biggest emptiest bubble of hot air I have ever seen. Millions of people talking themselves to death. Endless inanities that couldn’t possibly interest anyone else except maybe their mother! An inexplicable phenomenon! And incidentally an eye opener concerning the widespread inability to write/spell grammatical English!

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Do Users Understand Facebook Privacy Settings? | World of Psychology — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:00:37 +0000

[...] became popular, and long before the rise of Facebook and Twitter. As we noted earlier this week, 2008 was the year of social networking, as social networks surpassed email usage for the first time [...]

By: Annalise

Annalise — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:27:20 +0000

It may be tricky for Facebook to include ads that create revenue. Their large user base may be helpful with the additions. Newer social networks like HopOnThis.com offers free marketing to businesses through creating a profile, blogging, etc.

By: Psykolade

Psykolade — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:55:53 +0000

I think it’ll be tricky for Facebook. If they introduce more lucrative, but also more intrusive ads, they will probably lose a lot of users. But I guess now that they have reached critical mass, people are likely to stick with them?