MOST PEOPLE I know do not have the patience for Yet Another Social Network. Conn O Muineachain talked about social network fatigue yesterday during Limerick OpenCoffee. Krishna De wonders which is best if the choice is Twitter or Jaiku. (Jaiku wins in my world.) Bryan Person and Heidi Miller echo what nearly every long-time blogger thinks when they talk about the incessant flow of social network applications. And it is the presence of those applications (i.e., Facebook's applications) that make the Facebook platform the place to be. If you want VCs to sniff your portfolio, make a popular FB app. Scoble says as much when he calls it "the grand daddy" of social networking. I think it is worthy of that commentary because the applications are like the peanut butter that holds together the jam sandwich.
I've read the comments of some people who are displeased that Robert Scoble is treating Facebook like a business network. "That's LinkedIn's role," they say. But Scoble is over on Facebook since it brings him "cool applications ... like iLike and Zoho". He also acknowledges the presence of "a lot of really crappy ones" and those would be the ones I'm discarding after disuse. (Scoble would have me discard Zombies since "it’s a lame application.")
Conn O Muineachain and I recorded our thoughts about the emergence of Facebook. Conn's on the fence. I'm with Scoble. No matter how you look at it Facebook is the one. Right now.
Robert Scoble -- "Why Facebook? Why Now?"
Wow! Facebook gave me my real name: facebook.com/p/Bernard_Goldbach/699587348 along with 30m other people.
