05.08.08
Social media: dead before it started?
Posted in Social Media, Social Tools, Web Business at 5:05 pm by Mosey
I keep reading about the death of Facebook. How people are sick of it, how people are tired of it, how people aren’t going to use it for applications. And yet, every company I know is looking to make an app, people who weren’t on Facebook a week ago are addicted now. Hell, Myspace is already not meeting projections and may be considered a drag on News Corp.
It is hard to remember that as social media early adapters we are onto the next big thing while the real big thing may still be getting hot. I am sure in six months we will be reading about how Twitter is all player out and some new gizmo is so much the rage. And then all my friends will finally get Twitter accounts, and four years after that my mom will want to know how you direct message.
I am not at all worried since the real power of social media is never going away now that we have it. Because social media is about friends, social networking is about talking to people.We are social, this is just a new medium. We always want to tell people what we think, I get twitter reviews of a restaurant during dinner, updates on shows in message boards as the live broadcast happens, you think that is going away? The tools may change just as we went from horse to car to plane, but we are still always on the move.
And if you are planning a new social media launch, David Alston, by way of Lee Odden talks about ten things to watch when launching a site. I think some of the tips are a bit… well if you are getting so much traffic you can watch that many people talk about that many items, then things are pretty good.
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