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Good. EDIT: My overly clever pithiness that doesn't add to the discussion stems from having seen too many similar posts for every social network or mobile app
by dictum 13y ago
Good.
EDIT: My overly clever pithiness that doesn't add to the discussion stems from having seen too many similar posts for every social network or mobile app since the early 2000s. Any service that relies heavily on everyone buying in will eventually lose steam, in part for cultural reasons[1] and also because other companies find areas where they can improve and desires that hadn't been tapped yet.
So, for a big social network to survive for decades and become an entrenched part of everyone's lives, it has to become like infrastructure. I suppose one way to do that is to continually buy new hot companies, as Facebook did to Instagram. Instagram too shall pass.
But when I read the headline, I did wish her friends were just finding new interests, and the new interests were taking too much time and leaving none to spend on FB.
[1] Imagine that Seinfeld was still being produced to this day.
- EliRivers 13y agoImagine that Seinfeld was still being produced to this day. Or the Simpsons! That would have stopped being funny in the nineties and now it'd be wheeled out each week just begging to be put of its misery.
- gavingmiller 13y agoOr maybe you're no longer part of the culture that the Simpsons is relevant to...
- dools 13y agoAs a side note check out @SeinfeldToday
- coldtea 13y ago>Imagine that Seinfeld was still being produced to this day. I don't get the obsession with Seinfeld. It wasn't funny even in it's day.
- thristian 13y agoAlthough I was rather fond of Seinfeld when it first aired, I can understand why it's particular sense of humour wasn't for everyone. These days, of course, there's also http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny to contend with.
- coldtea 13y ago>I can understand why it's particular sense of humour wasn't for everyone I'm not hard with humour. I laugh with tons of stuff. E.g: Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, The Marx Brothers, Monty Python, Mel Brooks, John Belushi, Steve Martin, Lenny Bruce, etc. Also stuff like Futurama, South Park, Family Guy, Jake and Amir, Colbert. MOR stuff too, from the Cosby show to Friends. I even like crude stuff like Will Ferell, Ben Stiller, Will Ferell, Farelli Brothers -- heck I can even laugh with "Big Mama's House" or Wes Anderson's stuff. That said, I've never found Seinfeld particularly funny. Mostly cliched and tired jokes. (I also never found Carlin funny either -- he's more of a preacher than a comedian).
- RobAtticus 13y agoYou can always be sure that when Seinfeld is mentioned, somebody will be there to let everyone know they didn't like it. Well, really any super-popular-thing/group/person. See: The Beatles, Seinfeld, etc
- ctdonath 13y agoI've been on Internet based social networks since about 1990 when one could actually keep up with EVERY post on usenet. Fact is, every identifiable social network has a distinct lifespan and will evaporate - Facebook being no exception, and now would be a good time to sell FB stocks if you have them.