Members Poker99 Posted July 19, 2010 Members Share Posted July 19, 2010 MySpace is almost dead... Facebook seems to be slowing down. From all my friends, I only see regular wall posts from maybe 10 of them. At first they were much more active. Social media is slowing down imo. People are getting tired of it. The internet revolution in music won't happen. Soon everything will be back to normal with major label artists making all the money and having all the exposure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted July 19, 2010 Moderators Share Posted July 19, 2010 like any fad, they will run their course, and eventually a new fad will displace them. T'was ever thus, t'will ever be... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TeeDupree Posted July 20, 2010 Members Share Posted July 20, 2010 Call a priest because Facebook is going down. There are a number of reasons to believe that Facebook is bound for a inevitable death. And their sucky new interface is a symptom, not a cause. The reason it's impossible to figure out where to go and what to do with that interface is because Facebook is trying to be all things to all people. It's a photo gallery. It's a meeting place. It's an email system. It's a game arcade. It's a shopping mall and gift exchange. If one more person gives me a "gift" of any kind on Facebook, I will flip out. It's not a gift. It's a picture of a gift. Or not even. And what you've actually done is steal a minute of my precious time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kramerguy Posted July 20, 2010 Members Share Posted July 20, 2010 Facebook will someday go down, all things do.. But not anytime soon. Even myspace wasn't threatened until facebook came along, so unless something newer and better hits the market today, I don't see anything replacing fbook anytime soon. And it ain't twitter.. that POS is just for uberfans to get updates when paris hilton takes a dump and stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gighive Posted July 20, 2010 Members Share Posted July 20, 2010 It will have its heyday and then slowly but surely something else will creep in to take its place. The internet is just too big to have all its resources confined into one space. And its not cool to have my whole family connected to my account. I signed up under an alias and they found me anyway :poke: So I rarely go on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dancebass Posted July 20, 2010 Members Share Posted July 20, 2010 Hey wait? Did someone say Paris took a dump? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Outkaster Posted July 20, 2010 Members Share Posted July 20, 2010 I hope it goes down. I get so sick of hearing about it every day. I know it is younger people but there as many adults that waste their time with it. What happened to having conversations or meeting people in everyday situations. Worked in the past. People on Facebook act as if their lives are so important. Get over yourselves no one gives a {censored}. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members eventArgs Posted July 21, 2010 Members Share Posted July 21, 2010 Can't happen soon enough for me... deleted my account some time ago (as 'deleted' as is possible anyway). I know some other's who've switched off too - maybe the rot has started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted July 21, 2010 Moderators Share Posted July 21, 2010 just yesterday they released some online user survey results and fB toook it inthe shorts, a lot had to do with their new interface...gee, how could that happen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Outkaster Posted July 21, 2010 Members Share Posted July 21, 2010 There is a movie coming out about Facebook. I saw the preview before Inception last night! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members richardmac Posted July 22, 2010 Members Share Posted July 22, 2010 Facebook will someday go down, all things do.. But not anytime soon.Even myspace wasn't threatened until facebook came along, so unless something newer and better hits the market today, I don't see anything replacing fbook anytime soon.And it ain't twitter.. that POS is just for uberfans to get updates when paris hilton takes a dump and stuff. Agree 100%. The public moves from fad to fad to fad. Twitter sucks. Facebook is big because it's got everyone reconnecting with their high school/college friends. That's going to be hard to beat. It might take years for someone to come up with something more appealing. Plus the longer it reigns the harder it will be for something "better" to replace it. Microsoft Windows has 90% of the market share but there are very, very few people who "love" Windows. Which is why you never see a Windows bumper sticker. I think the only thing that is certain, though, about the Internet, is the fact that in the future it will contain even more porn than it has today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted July 22, 2010 Moderators Share Posted July 22, 2010 You say that like it is a bad thing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Poker99 Posted August 12, 2010 Author Members Share Posted August 12, 2010 fun on twitter? Damn your life must suck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zuzz Posted October 12, 2010 Members Share Posted October 12, 2010 All social sites die. Remember the old MP3.com? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members drunkinminer Posted October 12, 2010 Members Share Posted October 12, 2010 Facebook will someday go down, all things do.. But not anytime soon.Even myspace wasn't threatened until facebook came along, so unless something newer and better hits the market today, I don't see anything replacing fbook anytime soon.And it ain't twitter.. that POS is just for uberfans to get updates when paris hilton takes a dump and stuff. I think Diaspora will replace it. Kinda looks like Facebook but without the Bull{censored} games and junk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dirtyroger Posted October 12, 2010 Members Share Posted October 12, 2010 I personally can't imagine any of the social networking will disapear! It will only change, people love it, internet marketers love it, business's love it! Never heard of Diaspora, i've only just found Squidoo! Facebook still ranks as the 2nd most popular site on the internet! Thats a huge amount of users.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members flatfinger Posted October 13, 2010 Members Share Posted October 13, 2010 Say it isn't so !!!!.............Life will no longer be worth the trouble without my adoring followers .........................how will I go on if I cannot share all the boring minutea of my life with them ????? Tell me It's a cruel hoax you bastards!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators BATCAT Posted October 13, 2010 Moderators Share Posted October 13, 2010 I hope it goes down. I get so sick of hearing about it every day. I know it is younger people but there as many adults that waste their time with it. What happened to having conversations or meeting people in everyday situations. Worked in the past. People on Facebook act as if their lives are so important. Get over yourselves no one gives a {censored}. Boring and trite people exist both in real life and on social networking sites, as do interesting people. The practice of demonizing social networking assuming people that use such sites do so as a replacement for real world interaction is tiring. Is there annoying and useless stuff on Facebook? Sure, plenty. I try to ignore it, and I use it to see what my out-of state (and country) relatives are up to, stay in the loop about cool parties/shows/etc, get reminded of friend's birthdays, organize the odd event... in other words, try to take the good and leave the bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vanlatte Posted October 14, 2010 Members Share Posted October 14, 2010 A recent discovery on FB changed it, for me, from Irritating to Just Mildly Irritating....I had no idea you could hide updates by user. Now I can keep people as friends but no longer have to wade through countless "I JUST HAD A BLT" and "Ugh I hate Mondays" garbage to see anything worthwhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators BATCAT Posted October 14, 2010 Moderators Share Posted October 14, 2010 I had no idea you could hide updates by user. I want to hug the person that came up with that idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grubgoat Posted October 15, 2010 Members Share Posted October 15, 2010 My guitar player and I were talking about this today. He thinks myspace is about to make a big comeback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators BATCAT Posted October 15, 2010 Moderators Share Posted October 15, 2010 My guitar player and I were talking about this today. He thinks myspace is about to make a big comeback. They better get a layout that doesn't make me want to kill myself first. Have you been on there lately? It's awful; just unbeliavable cumbersone/cluttered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Instrospection Posted October 16, 2010 Members Share Posted October 16, 2010 I agree that there was much more activity on Facebook for bands/ musicians, at the start. I've never joined the Facebook music ranks--I already have enough things to update at an official website and MySpace, but i've seen alot of friends' bands and even some fairly well known bands that have lost steam on their Facebook music updates and whatnot. In the end, I think that one can spread their social networking too thin.....for the average band, anyways, where the audience splits it's own vote. I think that it makes sense for bigger bands because there's enough of a fanbase that may use one of the social networking sites but not the others, but it's more hassle than it's worth for smaller acts, where I think that you're better off by directing people to just a website and/ or maybe a MySpace. Lots of bands have even dropped their official website because of the popularity of MySpace and Facebook in the past, and I think that's a mistake. Once you stop putting any emphasis on your website--even if that's just a few really important updates a year--it's tough to go back and resurrect it, I think. Another thing that never convinced me to move anything to Facebook, ever, was that i'd known people that had a few hundred friends each, and as a band, collectively, they were still drawing 20-30 people total to a show, so i'm still inclined to believe what i've maintained for awhile--social media and online networking is great for what you already have going into it, not necessarily what's been perceived to have been cultivated solely from online means. Only a select few can do that, and i'm not sure that it's that obvious to most, but the abandonment by lots of bands to do proper updates or even update it at all, would signify that alot of others have reached the same conclusion. Sometimes it's probably just too easy.....I think that it's the ease of which information gets out there, that like any other information online, just because it's out there, doesn't necessarily mean that it actually represents any real physical reality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Poker99 Posted October 18, 2010 Author Members Share Posted October 18, 2010 I agree. I think the BEST of the best is a mailing list. When people give you their email its more of a statement they like what you do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mark333 Posted October 18, 2010 Members Share Posted October 18, 2010 I agree that your mailing list is paramount. Although you may as well have a facebook page for your band to catch people's emails in case they come across it. The difference between Facebook and Myspace is Mark Zuckerberg. Tom anderson sold off Myspace, and it's development also, it turns out. Zuckerberg seems to have an uncanny attatchment to Facebook and its future. (much more akin to bill gates than tom) There will always be fads but i think facebook has yet to come anywhere near an end. Facebook's Advertising interface alone is remarkable, allowing every user to use it's complex algorithms to advertise their business / interests is something myspace never even seemed to think of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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