Comments on: Facebook is not the web. It’s only on the web. http://www.completetosh.com/weblog/2007/09/16/facebook-is-not-the-web-its-only-on-the-web/ by Neil McIntosh Wed, 04 May 2011 13:45:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Charlie Beckett http://www.completetosh.com/weblog/2007/09/16/facebook-is-not-the-web-its-only-on-the-web/comment-page-1/#comment-1041 Charlie Beckett Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:53:49 +0000 http://69.89.31.92/~complew7/weblog/2007/09/16/facebook-is-not-the-web-its-only-on-the-web/#comment-1041 Sadly you are guilty of the same hype. Why exactly did you believe what Facebook people told you about Facebook in the first place? Who ever said it was the centre of the universe apart from saddo publicists or new media polemicists? When is online media ever going to get over itself? This is NME syndrome: puff 'em up and slap 'em down... Sadly you are guilty of the same hype. Why exactly did you believe what Facebook people told you about Facebook in the first place? Who ever said it was the centre of the universe apart from saddo publicists or new media polemicists? When is online media ever going to get over itself? This is NME syndrome: puff ‘em up and slap ‘em down…

]]> By: Suw http://www.completetosh.com/weblog/2007/09/16/facebook-is-not-the-web-its-only-on-the-web/comment-page-1/#comment-1040 Suw Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:18:05 +0000 http://69.89.31.92/~complew7/weblog/2007/09/16/facebook-is-not-the-web-its-only-on-the-web/#comment-1040 At last! Someone else who doesn't believe that Facebook is the centre of the universe! Couldn't agree more, although I've really suffered from people having a go at me when I express any doubts at all as to Facebook's supremacy. Personally, I can't see what makes Facebook so special - its hype cycle may have a higher amplitude and a longer frequency, but that doesn't mean that it's going to stick at the top forever. Uncomfortable blurring of the lines between social/business, disturbing privacy leaks, and the potential (and to my mind, probable) migration of teenagers/students away from a tool that they once felt was theirs but which is now infested with the very adults they were trying to get away from - all these things could push Facebook down the leeward slope of the hype cycle at any time. Anyone that focuses their business just on Facebook and ignores the wider web is an idiot. At last! Someone else who doesn’t believe that Facebook is the centre of the universe! Couldn’t agree more, although I’ve really suffered from people having a go at me when I express any doubts at all as to Facebook’s supremacy. Personally, I can’t see what makes Facebook so special – its hype cycle may have a higher amplitude and a longer frequency, but that doesn’t mean that it’s going to stick at the top forever. Uncomfortable blurring of the lines between social/business, disturbing privacy leaks, and the potential (and to my mind, probable) migration of teenagers/students away from a tool that they once felt was theirs but which is now infested with the very adults they were trying to get away from – all these things could push Facebook down the leeward slope of the hype cycle at any time.

Anyone that focuses their business just on Facebook and ignores the wider web is an idiot.

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