With the news that Facebook might seek a horrendously large\u00a0buyout in the future… <\/p>\n
And that Facebook is facing a lawsuit from another social networker… <\/p>\n
I’m wondering stuff.<\/p>\n
Things like:<\/p>\n
Can the growth in networking\/social websites be sustained?<\/p>\n
And:
\nWhatever happened to email and Messenger, how did they become ‘unfashionable’?<\/p>\n
And:
\nHow long before the market (consumer) reaches saturation point?<\/p>\n
And:
\nWhatever happened to email and Messenger, how did they become ‘unfashionable’?<\/p>\n
And:
\nIs there a natural age bar to using social network websites?<\/p>\n
And:
\nWhatever happened to email and Messenger, how did they become ‘unfashionable’?<\/p>\n
Sigh.<\/p>\n
Yes.<\/p>\n
I know I’ve repeated the question.<\/p>\n
But that’s rather the point.<\/p>\n
We have NNTP newsgroups (once considered the mutt’s nuts); individual email (also touted as\u00c2\u00a0the dog’s danglers); email mailing lists (an extension of email); websites (text\/graphical and searchable); blogs (ditto but interactive<\/em> too)… <\/p>\n So are social networks really ‘something new’?<\/p>\n Or are they merely a\u00c2\u00a0minute functional extension of ‘all of the above’?<\/p>\n Did Web 2.0 begin with blogging and will it end with social networking?<\/p>\n Which raises the question – what are social networking websites for<\/em>?<\/p>\n Faceparty – one of the earliest social networking websites – has been nicknamed (perhaps unfairly) ‘find-a-shag’.<\/p>\n Certainly Faceparty has an ‘adult’ section to its content.<\/p>\n Is this perhaps what we mean?<\/p>\n Are the words ‘social networking websites’ really just a euphemism for ‘find-a-shag’?<\/p>\n I’m not being snobbish about this.<\/p>\n I’m just trying to understand the… <\/p>\n Need, I suppose.<\/p>\n Yes.<\/p>\n I’m just trying to understand the need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the news that Facebook might seek a horrendously large\u00a0buyout in the future… And that Facebook is facing a lawsuit from another social networker… I’m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}