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I'm not the biggest fan of facebook, but this guy is completely unqualified to comment on the intricacies of long-term growth and sustainability in social media
by dreamux 15y ago
I'm not the biggest fan of facebook, but this guy is completely unqualified to comment on the intricacies of long-term growth and sustainability in social media... just look at his profile: http://blogs.forbes.com/people/timworstall/ http://blogs.forbes.com/people/timworstall/
He has nothing to do with the technology industry.
Also, he doesn't back up his rhetoric with data... this is an opinion piece and a flaky one at that.
- tomgallard 15y agoIsn't the problem that no-one is currently qualified to comment on the long term potential growth or sustainability of social media? It simply hasn't been around long enough to make any comparisons with the past useful. You're right, that there isn't much data, but the fact that user growth seems to have at least stalled (if not started to decrease) in the richest markets in which Facebook has a presence has got to be a worry. Assuming that the yearly value of a user is roughly proportional to national GDP per capita, Facebook needs to gain 40 users in India to make up for every one it loses in the US.
- narkee 15y agoAppeal to authority is a logical fallacy.
- protomyth 15y agoAsking the dude who stayed at a Holiday Inn how to shutdown the nuclear plant will fail 99.999% of the time.
- rbarooah 15y agoHis flaky opinion piece seems to have done a reasonable job of starting a conversation.