Comments on: Where are Facebook’s Early Adopters Going?

By: norcalhiker

norcalhiker — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:57:06 +0000

What an awesome post. I’ll be checking back often. I was an early adopter of thefacebook and can confirm that I’ve significantly restricted my privacy settings. But I’m not sure that I’ll be switching networks anytime soon. I like FB and dislike the hassle of early adoption.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:58:00 +0000

As someone else mentioned, the people who are actually “early adopters” are people who are no longer youngters. I made my profile much more private than previously because I’m 26 now and I was only 21 or 22 when I adopted an account. It doesn’t bother me if my uncle pokes me because I’m adult enough not to mind interacting with my uncle.

Facebook is getting too cluttered, though…but weirdly, I log on much more now than I used to, because I in fact kind of like some of the applications myself! Since the introduction of the news feed I spend more time on facebook because I’m notified when one of my friends gets in and out of a relationship or engaged or something.

Also, as others have said, you can’t make your friends’ profiles less cluttered, but you can customize how much information is given to you in the news feed.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 15:41:00 +0000

These guys are early adopters…and it’s actully useful! http://apps.facebook.com/thenewsroom

By: Ethereal Merc

Ethereal Merc — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 05:07:00 +0000

Why is it everytime I go to this site, somebody is talking about facebook? Is facebook the new unofficial god of the internet social networking world? I doubt it. Most of the people on it are simply to proud or scared to go on other sites like myspace. Get over it guys, there is a whole-nother world out there.
Besides, you gotta realize all of the rules that FB puts on it’s mermebes is so they aren’t viewed as another myspace, a vamped sex-connection.

By: Mac

Mac — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:53:00 +0000

Facebook move towards an application oriented platform is an incredibly innovative one. But it seems that the website is now getting messier and messier.
We forgot often that a centralised website for a huge bunch of things is not the right solution, too much things gather in a common layout and a common architecture can't be more user-friendly than specialized solutions.
Regarding the early-adopters, some of my friends,Facebook users and techno-addicts so to speak, have recently invited me to www.6pages.com, a small and recent SNS. I haven't tested it yet as I'm quite busy but they seem quite eager about it. I guess that the new and hype sides of this website are what they like. I'll try to get more information in a few weeks time to let you know about the reasons of this choice.

Good post btw ;-)

By: Kevin Gamble

Kevin Gamble — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:18:00 +0000

Isn’t this the response you would expect to see from established networks? Don’t established networks always invoke strategies to discourage interlopers?

I can see individuals leaving, but are the networks actually leaving as well? Is the movement out as a group and they are reconvening elsewhere? I’ll look forward to your posts.

By: Bertil Hatt

Bertil Hatt — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:09:00 +0000

What? Not social networking? What do you mean, what is next? You are killing me!
I felt Facebook had something more–but maybe something is out there, that might do what Gmail did to mail, and steal most of the early adopters away. I just might have too broad a definition of it.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:38:00 +0000

It will be interesting to see if a potential IPO affects the early user community. When EBay went public, they faced some backlash from the early users on the site who formed the community that made the site worth so much. It will be exciting to watch how Facebook manages this.

By: Ilya Lichtenstein

Ilya Lichtenstein — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:41:00 +0000

I don’t know if the early adopters will ever move from Facebook- with its clear desire to become an application platform, and much more than a social network. I can see Facebook becoming a central destination. Some sites are never abandoned by early adopters- a good example is Gmail.

Click on my name for my thoughts on Facebook’s future.

By: fred

fred — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:00:00 +0000

Justin, I see this across the board, so the privacy movement isn’t just post-collegians or image-aware people. Its a shuttering/gatekeeping mechanism as well.

To Tom’s point about youngster’s being comfortable with family members being in the network, I respectfully disagree…While the environments in which we socialize change more frequently, our lizard brain changes a lot slower…kids still want to be away from their parents/relatives, and I dont know if that will ever change.