According to Siggy's post for Facebook. I didn't know that facebook faced this problem. Everyday i notice new people add in and i recive a lot of applications from different people. To tell you the truth it passed my mind to stop using facebook because of this uncontrolled aplication thing.
According to some recent report showed the number of people logging on to the social networking site in the United Kingdom dropped by 400,000 between December and January of 2007-2008.The decline, a first for the Facebook-crazed British, was pounced on by critics who gleefully warned that Facebook fatigue had finally arrived
In the U.K., for example, Facebook still boasts about 8.5 million users. That translates into about one out of every six people in the country. It is believed that this result referes to different age groups and the time they spent in facebook and their need. People aging from 12- 34 they use facebook to meet new people, communicate with friends and share photos. Those over 40 believe it is time consuming.
Check out this video that is against facebook!!!
Source: http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/310272
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I would like to comment that, in my opinion, the difficulties in getting through the PR message through social networks (especially Facebook) is that they are, in fact, very personal!
People who are participating in social networking are all at the time very different one from each other (as are also the activities they choose to have through their facebooks). So, the crafting of the message is becoming an even more challenging task for the practicioner
Great music video! As a friend of Facebook users, I often hear them complaining about the amount of time they “waste” on social networks. I think the term “waste” is thrown about because of the way in which they use social networks in the first place. These friends are not in the social network environment to further their career, make business contacts, or send/receive PR messages, they are primarily on Facebook for its social elements: sharing photos and communicating with friends. Knowing that social networking numbers are dwindling, is Facebook a viable option for PR? If people are there to simply ‘chat with friends” then wouldn’t an ‘invite to be friends” from a PR be somewhat intrusive? On his Blog BITS, Saul Hansell reveals how he doesn’t accept invites from PRs because he feels that “the relationship is too complex and mostly words better at arms length”. Maybe it is too difficult to mix business with pleasure.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/13/he-didnt-want-to-be-that-kind-of-friend/
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