I haven't been on Facebook in probably 4 months. Deactivated my account after Beacon & Scoblegate broke. Shouldn't be that hard to delete your personal data. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
dropping Java support is quite telling - Dave Hodson
lol! And by early adopters you mean, people who were on it long after college students? We still use it. - Shawn Farner
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That explains why I don't understand the sudden disdain for Facebook. The cool kids are taking their ball and going home... no wonder it was a mystery. - Bwana
Shawn: good point. OK, early adopters who were not college students. :-) - Robert Scoble
I've noticed a definite trend amongst college students, they'll hang out on Fb for about a year, and then they steadily use it less and less. Fb is geared for college, lots of people use it here and there, but kids currently in college are on it A LOT. - Shawn Kirsch
I never bothered with it to begin with... so cluttered. - TranceMist
I've stopped using facebook as well. It started feeling like MySpace. - Beau Liening
I just don't feel like I'm on the internet when I'm on Facebook. - Michael Turro
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To FB: turn off the firehose of app spam and vampire biting and we might come back - Christian Anderson
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While Friendfeed has many advantages over Facebook, Facebook has others over Frienidfeed. Facebook has a better developed repetoire of friend capabilities (before but also including chat). Friendfeed profiles pale in comparision to Facebook. The Friendfeed threaded conversations is a major advantage for them, witih the feed including many popular services. - Alex Hammer
but you get sucked into some of those apps with the returning of plants and eggs and superpokes and it starts to get painful and obligatory... - edythe
The developer issues for Facebook is centered around that their is now competition for the developer's resources at a time when the new rules are being enforced and the low hanging fruit has been picked. For users, the issues are that there are too many repetitive apps, too many apps that require use and propagation to get value and an interface that has issues under the weight of too many applications. - RAPatton
Facebook apps managed to spam out the early adopters... - engtech
Yes, the Facebook apps spammed me out. I now use Facebook like LinkedIn: I politely answer friend requests and occasionally post stuff. - Francine Hardaway
Facebook might get interesting again if Microsoft makes a play for it. - Rafe Needleman
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Facebook just functions as an address book for me. They squandered the opportunity to make newsfeed useful. Which is why we are all here. :) - Christopher Sacca
I use Facebook to reflect my friendfeed. That's it. I login once a month from the iPhone to see what's going on. - Magnus Jonsson
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e things in other places, as well. I've moved on certainly. - Rich Palmer
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I think tech savvy early adopters are moving off it, but a lot of the rest of the world is staying on it and moving onto it. Everyone I know knows what Facebook is and can understand what they get from it, even if they don't use it. No one I know who isn't a tech person knows or even understands what the point of twitter or friendfeed is. Different strokes and all that... it doesn't have to be a zero sum game, not yet at least. :) - felix
That's what early adopters do, they come, look around, and eventually move on. I still use Facebook to be social with the regular non-geek people that don't know about the other 5000 ways to be social on the web. - Shey
In a way it is such a shame that facebook has lost its momentum because that's where I was starting to find all my old friends, taking them elsewhere after that. If they don't register at the least techy site - will they register at all? - Alex von Halem
i completely disagree, robert. the early adopters of facebook were college students. "early adopter" bloggers didn't join until a year or two after facebook started from what i've seen. and facebook -- as far as i know -- is still dominating colleges. also, it's grown to more than 70 million monthly active users. in other words, early adopters in the tech world have never mattered to facebook, and they still don't. - Eric Eldon
It is sad that a consumer focused site is losing so much momentum, especially after picking up all of that Google tallent. I am beginning to believe that Yahoo has it right, here: social networking is a feature that should be implemented in a suite of services. The opposite--social networking is a platform on which serivces should be built--is bound to fail the test of time. Even with LinkedIn, I hate that my network is a destination rather than a useful resource. This will hopefully change with LinkedIn's developer tools, however. Could be LinkedIn make the same mistake... - James Urquhart
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Facebook needs to start providing content and become a true portal. Even your frinds get annoying after awhile. - Alex C. Williams
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I'm enjoying Facebook because ~90 of my dance friends have moved there from Tribe.net (fears of Tribe.Net collapsing due to lack of critical mass outside SF, and lack of funding). My 227 Facebook friends average age 37 (age 17-72+), so it's not quite the college set. I play rock-paper-scissors with an old Orchestra friend who's now a history professor in Texas. I can listen to my MSR friends "status" about their kids winning skiing awards or their surgery issues (and these MSR guys DON'T use Twitter). - Mitchell Tsai
My "geek friends" from 1976-2008 are 99% not on Twitter, much less FriendFeed. These guys mostly run MSR research areas, CTOs/CEOs of companies, CS professors, Internet lawyers... Many were major hackers in their day, & most of our population would call em "geeks". Only 1 out of all those geek friends uses Twitter, and he's a very light user. Facebook & LinkedIn statuses are great because I can hear if they are "feeling sick", see new pictures of their kids, or hear a blurb about their latest projects. - Mitchell Tsai
the comment that sums it all up? "I think everyone is just incredibly bored" nail/head. - Iain Baker
