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Facebook still gets a lot of press these days, and it supposedly has more than a billion users. But I’ve pretty much given up on it for business and personal use. Over the last couple of years I’ve found that Facebook just wasn’t worth the effort and time that I was putting into it.
First I deleted the Facebook pages for my blogs, and then I eventually deleted my Facebook account altogether.
I might be early in saying this but, frankly, I think Facebook is headed toward a slow decline and death. Oh sure, there are still lots of people using it…for now. But the quality of the Facebook experience has been going downhill for users for a while, and now Facebook has taken the drastic step of angering many sites and businesses that post content on it.
I'm an admin on a couple of FB pages (to help out friends and have a little fun) and Jim is right on-- FB has mucked with stuff to the detriment of site users. One of the pages was consistently getting 50-60k visits per day, assuming you can trust FB's numbers. Then they did their infamous algorithm change and traffic dropped like a stone. Though again, I don't trust their numbers. At the same time they started spamming us for their paid services.
Who remembers Digg? Way back when it was a great vehicle for promoting LinuxPlanet stories and LXer original features. Then they did an "algorithm change"-- nice excuse, eh? -- and it went to pot instantly.
I habituated it when it was dogg/dot/somethingorother, a summary feed of slashdot, digg, and that other one that's made "+1" the bane of the internet. ;)
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Who remembers Digg? Way back when it was a great vehicle for promoting LinuxPlanet stories and LXer original features. Then they did an "algorithm change"-- nice excuse, eh? -- and it went to pot instantly.