Comments on: Facebook Fatigue? Visitors Level Off In the U.S.

By: Bruce Waskett » Is Facebook being killed by its applications?

Bruce Waskett » Is Facebook being killed by its applications? — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:01:10 +0000

[...] then is helping to level off the user base. There are some interesting recent stats on ‘TechCrunch‘ with comments worth scanning through, and the media is generally reporting a down turn in [...]

By: Facebook Fatigue? Visitors Level Off In the U.S. | Internet Search Marketing.com

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:37:01 +0000

[...] post comes from Tech Crunch. The number of people who visit Facebook has been leveling off over the past few months in the [...]

By: Jonas

Jonas — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:03:11 +0000

What’s up with the graphs? Is it me or do the lines appear to represent very different data…

By: Wais

Wais — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:31:46 +0000

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By: Facebooks levnadstid? - Blogg-forum

Facebooks levnadstid? - Blogg-forum — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:51:02 +0000

[...] klart att det finns tydliga tecken på att Facebook kommer börja sjunka undan. Man kan läsa i Techcrunch att ökningen av besökare från USA har mattats av. Facebook lider ju allt mer av spammiga [...]

By: Le vilain Facebook « Le monde change…et pourquoi pas?

Le vilain Facebook « Le monde change…et pourquoi pas? — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:33:13 +0000

[...] un bien vilain personnage du Web 2.0. Et peut-être que les internautes commencent à le réaliser (ici et [...]

By: רשתות חברתיות המודל העסקי שלא הבנו | SMO- שיווק ויראלי,פרסום ברשתות חברתיות

רשתות חברתיות המודל העסקי שלא הבנו | SMO- שיווק ויראלי,פרסום ברשתות חברתיות — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:59:57 +0000

[...] מכך “התשישות החברתית” התחילה לתת את אותותיה גם בסטטיסטיקות מדאיגות ובתהיות כלכליות מדאיגות לאור תחזית ההכנסות שפרסם [...]

By: Is everyone all social networked out? « letters from digital media

Is everyone all social networked out? « letters from digital media — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:15:14 +0000

[...] 19, 2008 by barryclassic Stats say that the US numbers for Facebook and Myspace are down in early 2008. The backlash against social network apps in in full [...]

By: The Praized Blog » Blog Archive » Twitter is The New Facebook

The Praized Blog » Blog Archive » Twitter is The New Facebook — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:51:25 +0000

[...] few weeks later, Techcrunch also looking at ComScore data said “The number of people who visit Facebook has been leveling [...]

By: steve

steve — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:13:32 +0000

hi,

I actually heard from someone, that facebook would get bigger. and myspace would see a decline.

I use both, i guess they have their advantages and dissadvantages.

steve

By: Nick Wright

Nick Wright — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:32:59 +0000

Keep it simple, keep it clean, thats what we all want

oh, and a few dollars to develop it more…

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share your life, treasure the privacy

By: The Week That Was - the "Well, DUH!" edition | TechWhimsy

The Week That Was - the "Well, DUH!" edition | TechWhimsy — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:59:32 +0000

[...] Facebook fatigue – visitors level off in the US – [...]

By: Vishal

Vishal — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:42:47 +0000

The chart is probably not true. There are a lot of people signing up in emerging economies that are still experiencing high Internet growth in numbers and density… like for example India. The chart above (compete and alexa) – dont factor in the falling ratio of people with the alexa bar as compared to those without. Most newbies in these countries do not have the bars installed – and so the ratio drops, and therefore the chart (since it depends on a static / old ratio which is not updated on the fly) automatically reflects a fall. Not sure you guys get what I am saying… but this seems to be one obvious reason for the drop. (The RATIO and metrics being used are old and not dynamically updated to take into account the LARGE number of new people who surf without the bars)… get it?

By: lion

lion — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:31:31 +0000

#12 Agree with you. I´m fed up of its format, the annoying invitations (I have no APIs right now), and all the idiotic groups created everyday.

By: Marc

Marc — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:45:23 +0000

To the guys defending FB and saying it is leveling off, etc. The big problem with FB is they are really good at spending money, but totally suck at making money. Monetizing that is. Comparisons to MySpace don’t really hold up because MySpace banks big time. Whereas FB gained initial popularity in not have all the spam and ads of MySpace. The FB spam platform has now wrestled the crown from Myspace bulletins and is now stunting their growth, and even with all this spam they still don’t know how to make money. FB will eventually be forced to monetize by flooding their pages with low eCPM display ads. This will seriously drive down their user base. I think they are looking forward to a friendsterlike future after a big crisis drama plays out (i.e. executive team taken out back and shot) around the end of this year since they will be starving for cash with no hope of profitability and declining user base. FB will burn through their funding paying a premium on talent for the commodity skills of endlessly tweaking their spam platform until the cash flow crisis can no longer be ignored. This should be pretty fun to watch.

@69 Thanks for playing your part in speeding the FB decline. I’m sure TC loves your spam too.

By: Rob Leathern

Rob Leathern — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:25:04 +0000

The comScore numbers/demographics are way out of whack when compared to the figures that Facebook is giving out. There is a 10 million user difference (comScore higher) and with the older age groups there is a 10x factor discrepancy between comScore and Facebook’s own figures:

comScore Facebook
Age 35+ 14,687,000 1,745,080
50+ 5,360,000 496,580

http://cpmadvis...e-age-now-2296/

By: Joe T

Joe T — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:18:57 +0000

What if millions of Facebook users organized a coordinated boycott and held the site hostage for ransome – say, $10 billion, to be deposited into a certain bank account and divided up among the boycotters? If members boycotted the site for a while, they could hold up all merger and sale talks, and collapse the valuation of the site.

By: Emily

Emily — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:34:42 +0000

Good, USEFUL, apps will keep Facebook sailing. Check out http://www.kyte.tv for the next thing in Web 2.0. Create a channel, post video, pictures, audio, slideshows, text/video/audio chat. Embed it on your myspace, facebook, blog, you name it. You can also produce instantly and on-the-go with your mobile phone. It’s pretty cool and also a great way to promote music, film, etc. I’m hooked.

By: Keith

Keith — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:55:32 +0000

I tried Facebook but found it to be overpopulated with really wierd and useless applications, that actually got in the way of chatting with friends…so I no longer endorse nor use Facebook. I prefer much more Stumble Upon for social networking. Otherwise, nice article. Regards, Keith Johnson, Author “365 Great Affirmations”.

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By: Ringo

Ringo — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:37:18 +0000

Richie (#29, #36, and #56), y get so defensive about facebook? face it, the site has jumped the shark, lost its personality, and now full of nonsense apps and spam-like messages. this coming from a 25 year old, who used to use the site religiously while in school. i’d venture to say that the only 30-40 year olds using fb are guys like u, pretending to have a social life by collecting and poking facebook friends.

btw, people actually pay linkedin and xing for premium accounts. business social networks also command higher cpms for their traffic. e.g. linkedin has ROS demographic data that is comparable to the wsj and forbes (per nielen @plan stats).

By: bhc3

bhc3 — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 06:34:59 +0000

One issue for Facebook…too much drama. There’s always something swirling around the company. As Google went through its growth phase, I don’t recall nearly so much drama around it.

My ten reasons for Facebook fatigue here: http://tinyurl.com/yq8bbe.

Finally, I wouldn’t count these guys out. They’re still the “it” company for social networking, have a lot of money and smart folks. I expect they’ll innovate some things that’ll change this.

By: I'm Not Actually a Geek

I'm Not Actually a Geek — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 06:29:22 +0000

Facebook Fatigue: Ten Reasons…

TechCrunch has a post up, “Facebook Fatigue? Visitors Level Off in the U.S.” It appears the number of visitors to Facebook has stopped its inexorable growth, and even declined in January. This is newsworthy because that’s a real cha…

By: Murat Aktihanoglu

Murat Aktihanoglu — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:22:56 +0000

I’d love to see an initiative for creating an open source social network in the style of wikipedia, sponsored by IBM, Sun, Intel, HP or alike, with no ads and a completely open data in/out policy, where you feel good about investing all your time and data.