SLOW day on the web today for posting

[Max Taxable]

It's funny because it seemed to step up everywhere shortly after I posted this thread - even here!

[CAG CheechDogg]

Lol Max ! you kicked everyone on the rear and made them pick up the posting telepathically ! ....:up:

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by CAG CheechDogg

Nice BOP5 ! We had well over 475 on our forums as well and that was only when I started keeping track ....muahah!

How or what do you use to keep track of your new posts BOP5?

I use the statistics built into vBulletin.

Admin CP -> Statistics & Logs -> Statistics -> New Post Statistics... then just do a daily list of new posts as far back as you want. You can also do a weekly or monthly list.

[Digital Jedi]

MySpace died because MySpace remained stagnant, badly coded and difficult to use for so many years. Facebook was never cool. Never. It just had it's uses. And they kept modernizing, even if some users complained. Facebook won't go anywhere any time soon. Because it's a service too many people use as a practical matter. If it were just dependant on being a type of status symbol, yeah, it would have been gone in a few years. But it it's not anything like what MySpace was years ago. In fact, it's mostly older people now, checking in on family and friends they wouldn't have contact with regularly otherwise, and also using it as a pseudo-RSS/news type feed. Google+ was and is cooler than Facebook. But it's just not the same thing. If anything were ever going to hurt them, it would have been G+, but they never impacted the site in any detrimental way. Facebook is just one of those services that we've got to get out of our head about. We've got to stop thinking about it like the old days, when social networking was a new thing and was a trend that only kids were using. (I mean, anyone here old enough to remember when people were talking about the internet and computers being a fad?) Social networking is just a fact of internet life now. And Facebook is at the forefront just because it was responsible for a lot of that. It will probably start to fall back and be less of a forerunner as Social Networking evolves. But it won't die anytime soon.


And we probably shouldn't expect some dip in activity over the next couple of weeks, considering the holidays will be impacting most of the world. Some of my users were wondering why I was opening next week, and I had just forgotten about what time of year it was.

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

MySpace died because MySpace remained stagnant, badly coded and difficult to use for so many years. Facebook was never cool. Never. It just had it's uses. And they kept modernizing, even if some users complained. Facebook won't go anywhere any time soon. Because it's a service too many people use as a practical matter. If it were just dependant on being a type of status symbol, yeah, it would have been gone in a few years. But it it's not anything like what MySpace was years ago. In fact, it's mostly older people now, checking in on family and friends they wouldn't have contact with regularly otherwise, and also using it as a pseudo-RSS/news type feed. Google+ was and is cooler than Facebook. But it's just not the same thing. If anything were ever going to hurt them, it would have been G+, but they never impacted the site in any detrimental way. Facebook is just one of those services that we've got to get out of our head about. We've got to stop thinking about it like the old days, when social networking was a new thing and was a trend that only kids were using. (I mean, anyone here old enough to remember when people were talking about the internet collapsing under it's own weight?) Social networking is just a fact of internet life now. And Facebook is at the forefront just because it was responsible for a lot of that. It will probably start to fall back and be less of a forerunner as Social Networking evolves. But it won't die anytime soon.


And we probably shouldn't expect some dip in activity over the next couple of weeks, considering the holidays will be impacting most of the world. Some of my users were wondering why I was opening next week, and I had just forgotten about what time of year it was.

I'm not sure what you're watching on FB, but it's not just old folks checking in, it's everyone - with their mobile devices.

MySpace died because it didn't become mobile friendly. It's the device, the mobile device, driving FB and twitter.

When the next really hot thing comes along (Google+ was never hot and never had any appeal at all) FB will die on the vine. And FB knows this, that's why they offered 3 billion bucks for snapchat, which is fast becoming all the rage. It's also why they bought instagram. And so on.

[Digital Jedi]

You have to also consider that Facebook pioneered the social aspect of social networking. MySpace didn't. They tried in retrospect. But by the time they added a news feed, it was too late. We weren't using the site anymore to connect. With MySpace you customized your page (with CSS classnames that even Tom admitted were badly thought out) and then...that was pretty much it. People occasionally came to your page to leave comments or send messages. But you basically just sat there, and hoped that a Friend would happen upon your page. Minimal notifications, mostly spam messages. Facebook made socializing the centerpiece of their website. MySpace "died" then. Because we weren't really doing anything with it anyway. The early mobile adoptions of both services were identical, except in the fact that MySpace had no feed. You'd upload photos. Somebody would have to decide they wanted to go to your profile to ever seen them.

Facebook ascended because it innovated social networking. Even if others had done the feed thing before, Facebook marketed it in a better way. And that's really all adoption of other services like Instagram really signifies. Their continued attempts at doing something different. That's not a sign of going downhill. On the contrary, stagnation is what will destroy any website. It's what killed MySpace, Friend Feed, Friendster, et. al. When you see them resting on their laurels, then expect them to go downhill.

Google+ is, actually, quite phenomenal. But it became a different thing. It had to. What it is now is something more akin to what I thought LinkedIn would become. I'm still not sure what it is they do. And on that note, add me on LinkedIn.