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I agree with you but I wouldn't be so stark. My email address book is still the one thing that I maintain and keep up to date. As social networks come and go, t
by matstc 19y ago
I agree with you but I wouldn't be so stark. My email address book is still the one thing that I maintain and keep up to date. As social networks come and go, that address book remains current. That's why a lot of social networks will offer to import my contacts when I sign up to a new service. Email is the reference and is constantly being leveraged.
Also, as the article says, the initial impetus of connecting with friends of friends and old acquaintances from high school quickly wears off. Once that fun is gone, what is left is a broken and boring network that might not be so valuable to a business.
- aston 19y agoWhy'd this submission get dead'd?
- pg 19y agodupe
- mechanical_fish 19y agoOh, no, I've been duped! My musings will languish in limbo! Oh, well. I should probably either retract them, refine them, or blog them, anyway.
- mechanical_fish 19y agoWell, I agree that email isn't going away, and that it's still as useful a social device as ever it was, assuming that your Plan for Spam is solid. I'm just not impressed by the people who wrap the features I've used since 1989 in a shiny new bow and try to sell them to me as the future of Facebook. It's nice to appreciate those features once and a while, but most of us have been using them all along! I also agree that Facebook, itself, is going to reach its limit (if it hasn't already) in exactly the way you said. Meanwhile, we can start this conversation again the next time this comes up. :)