Comments on: Is Facebook an Overnight Fad?

By: Dan Mosqueda

Dan Mosqueda — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:09:25 +0000

Boy I have to say that MySpace is just plain irritating and Facebook is pretty useless in general. I like playing Scrabulous, and while it wasn’t as irritating as MySpace, it still is full of annoying ads and I absolutely detest the poking and plethora of applications.

The true viable platform out there for real, substantive, online based apps is Salesforce.com. Otherwise this other stuff is just a bunch of white noise IMHO.

By: Shaine Mata

Shaine Mata — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:53:39 +0000

In 5 years? Wow, that’s ages in Internet time. Facebook will probably be one of SEVERAL channels. Scoble recently had a post in which he highlights one social media site that is underhyped despite having a massive user base. The difference between Meebo and Facebook is that the blogeratti are not there, yet a large chunk of other people are.

In my opinion, I see all this as neighborhoods. You don’t live in the same neighborhood as all your friends. You can spend most of your time in your favorite social media site and occasionally visit your friends’ neighborhoods. I don’t think you necessarily have to maintain a presence in all of them.

By: Facebook Developers

Facebook Developers — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:48:14 +0000

Well in my opinion facebook is great site, everybody is running after web2.0 marketing. I have one question though. WHAT YOU GUYS THINK ABOUT THE FACEBOOK IN 5 YEARS? it is just a trend? falls or Up?

By: Shaine Mata

Shaine Mata — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:18:50 +0000

It seems that Facebook is doing its best, lately, to limit non-sanctioned marketing on their platform. I’ve started using them less and less.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:04:58 +0000

I’m going to have to agree with Scoble and you, Facebook is definitely a viable marketing channel. Sure it will take some time to develop, but it will get there!

I love Scoble’s comment…
“I accidentally hit “ignore” on a FB friend request and now I feel guilty. Damn Facebook. Heheh”

HAHA he’s hilarious
Cheers

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By: Robin Jacob Abraham

Robin Jacob Abraham — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:32:45 +0000

As a marketing tool, I tried to understand the demographics enjoyed by Facebook.In my opinion, the growth of Facebook is across age groups.I sincerely do feel that it’s a networking site that will do very well in terms of users and advertisers as well.
You can read my take on the demographics here:http://www.mosaic-service.com/blog/

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By: Shaine Mata

Shaine Mata — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:23:30 +0000

By the way, I still wound up reading chapter 7 of The New Influencers. Steve Rubel is right in stating that Facebook is merely a channel. The channel does not create value, it is people.