Facebook is officially starting to decline in the last few months. One of the things that is making its decline is Skype on Facebook. The concept is good but who wants to chat with someone who is in their underpants and you can broadcast it over the net - it is getting a little bit creepy. Then the privacy settings getting a little whack and it is eventually going to take the fun away from Facebook - now you can filter your posts to your close friends which means the site is going to be a middle school cackle session with your online clique. Facebook is also getting a lot more advertisements and it looks like there is a lot of outside drama being caused by Facebook. The worst thing about the site is the older people on the site - it is not being targeted for a nice young 20 year old; now there are about 40, 50, 60, even 80 year olds on the site. People that are in their 90s are using e-mail which means Facebook and the internet is starting to age.
Facebook is not the only site that is jumping the shark - it looks like the entire internet is going into a transition. The coolness factor of the internet is going downhill and I can see an internet backlash taking place right now. Some sites are starting to become better than ever, such as YouTube, and even Google is starting to improve itself, along with Bing. But it looks like the social web is starting to lose it's luster.
The internet has been through it's stages and it is now continuing to evolve. The social web is starting to lose it's luster - everyone is using it and it is starting to get lamo. The social web was cool around 2006-2008 when everyone was using MySpace and Facebook. But that was a teenage rebellion thing while the adults were still using e-mail. But around 2009, this is when the social web has transitioned from a teenage rebellion thing to the mainstream thing that everyone, even your 80 year old grandma does. Now there is something wrong with you when you are not using the social media in some shape or form. YouTube was a teenage and young adult rebellion thing; now it has become the establishment. But now this Web 2.0 world has become the establishment. Blogging was livejournal and teen angst at the beginning; now it is pissed off teabaggers.
The internet is going in two directions: It will either be something that is so not cool or it will evolve into something that is a lot more cooler, more innovative than the fuddy duddy social media web. Facebook is starting to be a fuddy duddy site; MySpace basically nailed it's last coffin, and e-mail has become "oh please". There must be something that might be emerging in the technology world or it may be the anti-technology rebellion movement.
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