Rumours of Facebook’s death are greatly exaggerated
28th September 2008 by David North
The media have been ever ready to attack anything Internet related as either the root of all evil or a fad that will disappear after a short period of time.
Social media websites, being the “new” thing have been repeatedly attacked as a bubble ready to burst - a claim I’ve always thought was way off the mark. My opinion was that users were becoming more mature and using websites in a different way with just some flaky users just stopping use.
Well Facebook have announced their first 100 million users (although how many inactive accounts is a mystery) and Hitwise is showing Facebook traffic is up 50% year on year. Now these are hardly figures showing a bubble bursting are they?
People like to socialise and it’s only natural they’re going to extend this online if the tools are available.
