“With the news that MySpace is laying off a big chunk of staff and trying to refocus and start to win back some buzz from Facebook and Twitter, our own Derek Kerton made a useful observation that social networks appear to be similar to nightclubs: “Launch, get hot, go bust in 2-3 years, and then another sets up in the same place.”"
De eerste reactie op die post is geniaal
“When *I* was your age, I had to wade through fourteen-hundred lines of an eight-layer-deep-quoted USENet alt.globalism flamewar between three egotistic academics uphill, both ways, in the snow to get to the funny comment about dolphins and artificial lubricants, all at a **screaming** 1200bps.
IRC was exactly the same with a slightly faster response time, a significantly shorter attention span and with the added fun of being unexpectedly banned from the #dolphinlubricants channel by said egotistic academics in a hostile auto-bot channel flood takeover.
Then there were Compuserve forums & AOL chat rooms – same thing, but even dumber, if you can believe it.
Then, we had personalized home page guest books, Myspace and Facebook, which at least have the advantage of making the bastards come to you where you can force them to look at your retarded spinny animated GIF unicorn while they listen to a looped midi-wavetracker of “Eye of the Tiger”.
*sniff*… Aw great, now you done gone made me all sentimental. Now I’m going to have to ZModem a couple-a megs of 320×200x256 Cindy Crawford GIFs from my shell account at the university mainframe.”
MySpace: That Great Club Everyone Used To Go To
“With the news that MySpace is laying off a big chunk of staff and trying to refocus and start to win back some buzz from Facebook and Twitter, our own Derek Kerton made a useful observation that social networks appear to be similar to nightclubs: “Launch, get hot, go bust in 2-3 years, and then another sets up in the same place.”"
De eerste reactie op die post is geniaal
“When *I* was your age, I had to wade through fourteen-hundred lines of an eight-layer-deep-quoted USENet alt.globalism flamewar between three egotistic academics uphill, both ways, in the snow to get to the funny comment about dolphins and artificial lubricants, all at a **screaming** 1200bps.
IRC was exactly the same with a slightly faster response time, a significantly shorter attention span and with the added fun of being unexpectedly banned from the #dolphinlubricants channel by said egotistic academics in a hostile auto-bot channel flood takeover.
Then there were Compuserve forums & AOL chat rooms – same thing, but even dumber, if you can believe it.
Then, we had personalized home page guest books, Myspace and Facebook, which at least have the advantage of making the bastards come to you where you can force them to look at your retarded spinny animated GIF unicorn while they listen to a looped midi-wavetracker of “Eye of the Tiger”.
Via Techdirt