Facebook is the AOL of our Time
Posted Wednesday Apr 01 2009 | Anne Haynes | SEM |
Following is a thread from FriendFeed tonight. I reieved a +1 thanks @.LAG for my comment that “Facebook is the AOL of our time”.
FriendFeed Thread:
It’s been a busy couple of days but it’s good because I’m giving clients the “hook” for their fishing poles. I have so many thoughts about what is happening in social media:
1. Facebook is the AOL of our time – I don’t want a service to feed me applications and services.
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2. Friendfeed is the “stream” in Facebook but in real-time. I’ve seen the FB “stream” updates and heard about the hompage being updated with real-time “stream” data, but Brightkite did/does the real-time updates best on their homepage http://www.brightkite.com
3. When is the consolidation going to happen? I’m grateful that I’ve found my easy button, I don’t see consolidation for many months/dog years to come.
4. There is much to be discussed regarding social media ROI and engagement using twitter. I have a client that used twitter 5 times and within a week had 1200 request for samples. Yes everyone wants free stuff, but the viral aspect of coupon moms and savings is huge right now. Note majority of the 1200 were bots!
Bottom-line I don’t want my internet freedoms taken away from me! The internet is not traditional media and it’s best kept this way. I’m excited to participate and not lurk in the social media industry.
+1 for “…Facebook is the AOL of our time.” i agree, though i do feel FB is more instructive than AOL: they may end up being a giant R&D lab for the future. as long as your data stays locked inside FB, the AOL analogy holds. – @.LAG
@.lag I don’t think R&D labs fit the future. The R&D life-cycle is too short from a technology application perspective. I wish I could say the same about cancer cure life-cycle. Now the average “Joe” does R&D. I wish so much I had time to study APIs and code more. More and more I see coding as an embed cut and past. I don’t like hashtags why can’t we have a button.
I want someone to write a book title “Don’t Make Me Read”
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