Facebook lasted considerably longer, but that was mostly inertia. I don’t miss it a single bit.

To be honest, I can’t understand what use people get out of it, except for the whole find-people-I-haven’t-spoken-to-in-10-years thing. And in my case, there is probably a reason I haven’t spoken to them in 10 years ;)

What’s your use case, Alex? Why do you value it? That’s what I always want to know when I hear folks talk about it.

I don’t agree with everything Loren Feldman says but he does occasionally have a valuable message wrapped up in rant and/or humor. In the case of his 2008 predictions video post:
http://www.1938media.com/2008-predictions/

He wraps it by saying that in 2008 we’ll all realize that the most important voice in the internet is our own, and not that of all of the idiots we are following.

I try to avoid following idiots, but I agree, the power of social media is the power of our own voice.

In any event, thanks for the post. I see it as further evidence that the social media mass hysteria might be coming to an end (maybe that’s just wishful thinking.)

As I like to say: you’re not being social in front of a computer :)

if the purpose was similar to announcing a new address or phone number, I’d get it. My point was the number of people who were so…outright self righteous about it. I understand an act of defiance, but as I recall, your reason was that you simply weren’t using them, and the time was right.

I’m speaking more about people who were one day addicted to Facebook, and the next day defiantly against ever being near an app that has the ability to “superpoke”.

Of course, most of this post isn’t meant in a harsh or demeaning tone, nor is it directed to any one person or instance/event. It was a general commentary on herding-tendencies specifically within ’social media’.