Well, I know this isn’t an “experiment” since lots of people are on Facebook, Orkut and so on, but yes for me. I was reluctant about joining to them, especially Facebook. Seriously, I thought it will eat my time and give me nothing. I used Linkedin for some years (didn’t remember, but I suppose I joined on 2005) and I think this one is great to make professional contacts. Really, I made a couple good ones.
I started on Facebook, Naymz and Hi5. The last one is good if you want to make friends or something similar, Naymz is great for put all your profiles links in a single place (and ranks great on Google!) and Facebook looks good to keep in touch with people. Maybe this one is good to promote some of your work, links and other stuff, but I’m not sure (anyway it’s free, so go on!).
One thing I can’t stop notice is the amount of people on these networks. In only one day, I got 20 contacts on Facebook, and invited 33 people I know which have a Hi5 profile. But I have my reservations about how their CEO’s can monetize them. At least, I’m sure Facebook is over valuated. It’s ok to show AD’s, run marketing campaigns but this isn’t enough to reach a valuation of 15 billons on 2007! It has lots of hype now… but this don’t make a long run business. When the hype has gone, what do they expect to do? Do they expect people will waste their time clicking on apps that give their “criminal compatibility” forever? Teenagers yes, maybe, but they aren’t the big stake of the web traffic.
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I totally agree with you except for the last sentence, sadly I think that teenagers are the big stake as long as they are (like in any other *new* technology) the main users and consumers. I mean sadly for them, or for his parent’s bank accounts
Anyway, let’s see what happens when the bubble explodes (and it will!)
Congrats for your nice blog!