Facebook has lost its lustre
May 8, 2008 by Colleen Coplick
Filed under Social Media
I thought it was just me.
I thought that I was the only one not visiting facebook, not caring about event invites, updates or status updates. I find myself not checking into facebook for days on end. I don’t even look at the email notices that I get. Hell, I barely even check that account anymore. 
But, according to a survey posted on Mashable yesterday, only 13% of readers are not at all fed up with Facebook.
The data that prompted them to do the survey in the first place was by a group called 20bits. Their survey states that the number of active users has declined 27% since January, while the number of highly active users, as defined by 20bits, has plummeted 47%.
Even though data shows that there are still lots of active users of the site, I think that Brian Solis said it best: Facebook is the new MySpace.
What about you? Do you still use Facebook, and what for?
(image source, Mashable)
Colleen,
My report has nothing to do with how end users are engaging with Facebook or the Facebook applications.
Rather, it’s only about how Facebook developers are engaging with the community and the level of success they can expect to see from using the Facebook Platform.
Cheers,
Jesse
Jesse – good to know. I was more interested in the fact that Mashable had found that the early adopters, of which I am, were less interested in Facebook than we used to be. It was more about Mashable’s survey than yours.. I was just quoting you because it was where Mashable found their info…
Colleen, I suppose this demonstrates the true nature of this particular “early adopter” crowd. Move on to greener pastures as soon as the platform starts to become mainstream. I do use Facebook every day still, mostly to keep in contact with the non 2.0 segment of my friends who’s only activity online tends to be on Facebook for the most part…
Facebook is still growing like crazy, and losing early adopters such as yourself is I think almost inevitable in many ways…for me it’s my account on Xing.