Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April
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I wouldn't cry wolf just yet.
Just from my personal experience, I've noticed less and less of my friends using facebook - people aren't listing parties/events on it anymore, groups are annoying, and the apps are mostly useless spam.
Ditto, but that might be just because we're getting older. Maybe first-years/high schoolers still love it as much as we did back then?
Hard to judge without concrete numbers, and only fb has those :-P
To me, all this means is that their prime audience (students) are actually working. It'll be interesting to see what happens with their May numbers.
Only problem is, none of my friends use those (Well, except one), most of my other friends aren't really "early adopter" crowd and essentially a ton of apps and various things plague their Facebook profiles. To me, Facebook seems like a waste of time apart from hooking up with a few older colleagues. Once I hook up with them, I can find other methods to stay in touch (IM, Email, etc)
This is why I never understood the facebook buzz around tech people, for example here in YC news: it does not care. I don't want to state that only things like a search engine or a bug tracking system can care. Flickr cares a lot, changed the way people put photos online, is a social community in some way but driven by a common interest: it as a side effect it's a database of images.
The same like delicious, social bookmarking cares: it is a place where you can really find interesting resources, and it is useful for individuals. It is also one of the best applications for tags that is a very important semantic concept.
Instead generic social networks will came and go away one after the other, like Pubs do: they are mostly about fashion.