Has Obama got a Secret Weapon for the Chinese?
There had been recent reports of Facebook loosing a bit of its sheen.
CNN reported on recent signs of 'Facebook Fatigue' and another interesting story about it being ripe for some imminent disaster. There were also reports about alternative and upcoming social media sites like Tumblr which could soon replace Facebook.
Despite the recent drop out of about six million Facebook users in the US, I guess all this talk of Facebook’s loss of face has to do with its valuation of over a hundred billion dollars, based on a membership of over six hundred million users.
The reality is, with the world population approaching seven billion by 2011, the tsunami of Facebook is only in the making!
At the heart of its powerful social impact on the world, which can only be likened to a tsunami, are factors which the inventors of this social media site wouldn’t have been even aware.
Facebook was started as a bit of on line fun and social experiment around targeting the youth in the developed world, based on the perceived on line social and interaction needs of an open society, where people could easily meet and communicate off line without prejudice or sanction.
Facebook is in fact meeting a whole load of new and unknown social needs of an entire species, subtly changing human behavior and discernibly impacting the evolution of human race!
For one thing, it is not any more just for the young techies and computer savvy! Facebook is for everyone who has access to the internet and with the explosion of the telephony and wireless communication, everyone and his dog has a connection!
Google and its transliteration service have broken the barrier of language, allowing a big chunk of the 7 billion which was previously excluded from accessing Facebook and enjoying the fun and joy of interacting with their friends and relatives, in hitherto unknown ways!
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