http://www.joshualsimmons.com/?p=327 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:17:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.joshualsimmons.com/?p=327&cpage=1#comment-6 Tara Strauss Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:20:03 +0000 http://www.spontaneoushuddle.com/?p=56#comment-6 I'd have to say I agree with Jenna and immediately thought the same thing after your post. And as a non-facebook user, it's not so hard to not be on facebook. Yes, I can't look at the pictures of people who I went to high school with and haven't spoken to in 7 years. But anyone who matters to me knows I'm not on facebook and still invites me to things, and I can't think of one time that I didn't know about an event that I would have wanted to go to because of not being on facebook. I’d have to say I agree with Jenna and immediately thought the same thing after your post. And as a non-facebook user, it’s not so hard to not be on facebook. Yes, I can’t look at the pictures of people who I went to high school with and haven’t spoken to in 7 years. But anyone who matters to me knows I’m not on facebook and still invites me to things, and I can’t think of one time that I didn’t know about an event that I would have wanted to go to because of not being on facebook.

]]> http://www.joshualsimmons.com/?p=327&cpage=1#comment-5 Joshua L. Simmons Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:09:05 +0000 http://www.spontaneoushuddle.com/?p=56#comment-5 To that I would say, you thought the Bush administration was "Satany" but you didn't <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780486/" target="blank" rel="nofollow">leave the country</a>. Sometimes people remain members of things despite the flaws. In my case, because I recognize that all the information on there is in the CIA's hands I put less information on, but to be perfectly honest, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect" target="blank" rel="nofollow">network effects</a>—the value of a service that increase as the number of people increase—have backed me into a corner. Some people only communicate using Facebook, and even those that communicate using other means frequently use it to send out event notifications etc. It is an animal that is hard not to play ball with. To that I would say, you thought the Bush administration was “Satany” but you didn’t leave the country. Sometimes people remain members of things despite the flaws. In my case, because I recognize that all the information on there is in the CIA’s hands I put less information on, but to be perfectly honest, the network effects—the value of a service that increase as the number of people increase—have backed me into a corner. Some people only communicate using Facebook, and even those that communicate using other means frequently use it to send out event notifications etc. It is an animal that is hard not to play ball with.

]]> http://www.joshualsimmons.com/?p=327&cpage=1#comment-4 Jenna Scherer Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:14:25 +0000 http://www.spontaneoushuddle.com/?p=56#comment-4 Well riddle me this, Simmons. If Facebook is so Satany, how come YOU have an account? Well riddle me this, Simmons. If Facebook is so Satany, how come YOU have an account?

]]> http://www.joshualsimmons.com/?p=327&cpage=1#comment-3 Joshua L. Simmons Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:27:25 +0000 http://www.spontaneoushuddle.com/?p=56#comment-3 For Facebook to succeed long term, they need to find a way to monetize—to make money off of—their product/service. They have tried to do that with advertising. However, with <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865" target="blank" rel="nofollow">AdBlock</a> there is a growing number of users that do not even see that advertising, and as advertisers and investors begin to realize that Facebook is unable to actually make money, they will stop investing in it. When that happens Facebook will have two choices: sell their users' data, or collapse. Given that they are saying they will not sell the data, that leaves only only one option. Bye bye Facebook. For Facebook to succeed long term, they need to find a way to monetize—to make money off of—their product/service. They have tried to do that with advertising. However, with AdBlock there is a growing number of users that do not even see that advertising, and as advertisers and investors begin to realize that Facebook is unable to actually make money, they will stop investing in it. When that happens Facebook will have two choices: sell their users’ data, or collapse. Given that they are saying they will not sell the data, that leaves only only one option. Bye bye Facebook.

]]> http://www.joshualsimmons.com/?p=327&cpage=1#comment-2 Josh Goldfischer Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:02:29 +0000 http://www.spontaneoushuddle.com/?p=56#comment-2 Why is it a given that Facebook will collapse? Why is it a given that Facebook will collapse?

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