Facebook Is the Only Thing that Matters

by Leesa Barnes on July 19, 2007

In my quest to go on a social media diet, I looked at all the social networking websites I belong to. I’ve been social networking since 2003 (first one I joined was Ryze), but only one has become relevant – Facebook. Facebook has become so relevant to me, I no longer accept invitations to join the others.

Here’s what some of my friends are saying about Facebook.

  • Robert Scoble explains why Facebook has become relevant all of a sudden (it’s personal).
  • Dean Hua says that Facebook allows him to make a connection with people which is more important than knowing there’s 2-million people within 6-degrees of you.
  • Chris Brogan loves how the various applications not only make Facebook a richer environment, but a hopping place as well.
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  • btw, this prompted a blog post:

    http://inoveryourhead.net/attention-is-power/
  • I was on Facebook for about a month, then canceled my account. All I could see was everyone connecting with their old friends from grade school and high school. An networking outside of your general area is a pain.

    Facebook is just too... confining for me.
  • influencers' attention is extremely fickle. we'll see how long it lasts... fact is, they're earlier adopters, so they'll pick up on the new thing before anyone else anyway and jump ship.
  • Honeymoon's over, though. Look around all the sites but Scoble's and you'll see that we're talking now about the fact that we can't port our value accrued out of the site. If I make something great there, I can't thread it through RSS, can't port the contact list, etc.

    Nice that it lets you in, but crap that you can't get anything back out. : )
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