Rumours of Facebook’s death are greatly exaggerated
The media have been ever ready to attack anything Internet related as either the root of all evil or a fad that will disappear after a short period of time.
Social media websites, being the “new” thing have been repeatedly attacked as a bubble ready to burst – a claim I’ve always thought was way off the mark. My opinion was that users were becoming more mature and using websites in a different way with just some flaky users just stopping use.
Well Facebook have announced their first 100 million users (although how many inactive accounts is a mystery) and Hitwise is showing Facebook traffic is up 50% year on year. Now these are hardly figures showing a bubble bursting are they?
People like to socialise and it’s only natural they’re going to extend this online if the tools are available.
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