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I’m directly quoting CNET and saying “The future will be streamed. And streamed some more.” I can’t say this is a good thing. In their recent article Facebook vs. Twitter: How will you stream your world?, they talk about Facebook’s new attempt to be more like Twitter. That’s Right! Quoting facebook’s home-page tour directly: “We’ve updated our home page to make it easier to understand what’s going on with the people you care about. Now your friends’ posts are streamed in real-time and you have more control over what you see.”
Some of The New Features
If you’re saying to yourself “that sounds a lot like Twitter”, you’d be right! Facebook failed to buy Twitter and as a result, it looks like their going to step us a competitor. BusinessWeek.com explains that “Facebook’s imprecise and illiquid stock valuation limited its appeal to Twitter”. And to make matters worse, if Facebook succeeds, aggregation services like FriendFeed will have no use.
I used to be a big fan of Facebook, but then I started noticing the “revolution” that started taking place. Friends of mine would spend many wasted hours making “cyber-friends” and keeping up with old “buddies”. The entire concept of Friendship has been skewed. Facebook is a great way for people to keep in touch, but with this new re-design, our lives are going to become that much more digital.
I’m interested to see who wins the “Micro-Blogging” battle!
Posted under Social Networks
This post was written by Joshua Russak on March 6, 2009
Even the media giants can learn too! I like the term revolution, we are certainly witnessing one in a lot of ways this year. There is a fundamental change in power and organized structure in our politics and socioeconomic positions. It is going to get really interesting.
You couldn’t have said it any better. In fact, Guy Kawasaki said it best at SES. Check out this article: Guy Kawasaki: Twitter As A Tool For Social Media. He really pushes the idea of Twitter for both the little guy and media giants.