If I go to any cupboard or refrigerator in Australia, America or England, I can bet that any item of food or drink I pick up will have an expiration date. This is a date that some nutritionist somewhere has decided will keep the food safe for digestion. I wonder if other things in life have an untold expiration date also?
We are currently in the Technology Era; a time in history where miracles are happening on a daily basis, and humans have untapped resources and knowledge at their fingertips.
In this time, people are looking more and more towards innovative ventures which will be the next ?in? thing, in the eyes of the social majority. Then, within a blink of an eye, it?s gone and the next big thing has already arrived.
A great example of this is the Social Networking Site (SNS) Myspace. Go back not even 5 years and Myspace was the giant of the internet. It was receiving millions of hits every day, and had hundreds of thousands of active users. If you were on the internet, and not on myspace, there was something wrong with you.
The social networking boom came about, and other sites such as Twitter, Plurk and Facebook took off. It seemed that overnight FB became the new winner, and myspace no longer a major contendor in the social networking race.
Rapidly, Myspace tried to recover by including aspects that were seen on Youtube (video), FB (applications) and even Plurk (?moods?). It seemed though, that Myspace was simply not as useful anymore.
A year or so after Myspace started to lose it?s Number One position, and it might as well crawl its way into a grave. These days, I honestly don?t know anyone who admits to Myspace as being their primary SNS. SO much so, that even personally I have only used Myspace maybe twice in the last month; merely to check messages and invites.
Myspace is dead.
In Australia, FB is easily the main site now for social networking, and why not? It has pretty much everything anyone needs- pictures, videos, stories, applications, blogs, chat? and more and more is coming. However, it does seem that for many FB is this ?all at once complex service?, and there is a large number of people turning to simple sites such as Twitter. Does FB have an expiration date written somewhere, and are we creeping towards it? Or have we maybe gone over it, and FB is slowly poisoning our systems?
Apparently in 2008 FB came second in the growing category of a SNS, only beaten by hi5, however in 2008 FB was the largest overall SNS with 132 MILLION users. It seems that as something continues to grow, there is a set limit of how much. It is claimed that Myspace has saturated the SNS markets in places like USA, where there is just no more people to sign up for Myspace (no one that fits in the right demographics). Most of FBs growth is coming from International sources (International from a standpoint of being from USA). By the end of 2008, hi5 had started to take off, and is expected to even overtake FB soon?
Is this the end of FB?
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