http://www.fbbook.com/fblog/2007/04/14/facebook-traffic-climbs-dramatically/ the blog about the book Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:53:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 http://www.fbbook.com/fblog/2007/04/14/facebook-traffic-climbs-dramatically/#comment-53815 Sun, 07 Oct 2007 07:28:30 +0000 http://www.fbbook.com/fblog/2007/04/14/facebook-traffic-climbs-dramatically/#comment-53815 [...] Geocities’s features were all that one could reasonably do on the internet back then, and it still got ridiculously hot and eventually fizzled out.  Friends and social graphs?  Geocities had link rings.  I applaud the success of MySpace, Facebook, and Ning, but I personally don’t think its going to be nearly as big as it is now, in a few years.  In other words, I don’t think that there is any chance that Facebook can sustain the traffic growth they’ve had in the past.  Hype breeds hype, and I still think thats largely what is currently fueling all of this social network growth.  Nobody wants to be left behind, so they all join.  But what long-term value is there in these networks?  Keeping in touch with old high school friends?  Meh.  Pictures from the crazy party last week at Leo’s house?  Meh.  I see them being used for gossiping, name-calling, popularity contests, and online dating, and those things just aren’t that important as you mature. [...] […] Geocities’s features were all that one could reasonably do on the internet back then, and it still got ridiculously hot and eventually fizzled out.  Friends and social graphs?  Geocities had link rings.  I applaud the success of MySpace, Facebook, and Ning, but I personally don’t think its going to be nearly as big as it is now, in a few years.  In other words, I don’t think that there is any chance that Facebook can sustain the traffic growth they’ve had in the past.  Hype breeds hype, and I still think thats largely what is currently fueling all of this social network growth.  Nobody wants to be left behind, so they all join.  But what long-term value is there in these networks?  Keeping in touch with old high school friends?  Meh.  Pictures from the crazy party last week at Leo’s house?  Meh.  I see them being used for gossiping, name-calling, popularity contests, and online dating, and those things just aren’t that important as you mature. […]

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