I thought it would be interesting to compare the reach of Irish supermarkets (well, supermarkets *in Ireland*) on Facebook in a bid to understand why their stuff always seems to end up on my wall, even if i’m not a fan of them myself…
Social Media
the end is nigh (for facebook anyway)
There was a time in the early 2000’s where spam was becoming a threat to email… you had to filter through lots of spam to get to genuine emails… the time spent filtering was greater than the time spent reading & responding to genuine emails. Gmail came along and used technology to solve the problem, rescuing email and restoring it’s value… the problem with Facebook today is that it’s headed down the same path…
will patience pay off for Google+?
Google+ is now over two years old. They can spin the numbers whatever way they like but the reality is it has so far failed to make a dent in the social space – that’s my opinion. But it’s changing slowly… getting people signed up wasn’t really an achievement – it was inevitable Google would get hundreds of millions of people signed up… all they had to do was push Google+ out and merge it with all your other Google stuff. That’s exactly what Google have done and are doing these days in an increasingly aggressive manner…
Just another Ruby on Rails fan
I’ve never really caught the programming bug. I was taught VB / .NET in college but it was all incredibly tedious and not very interesting. Drag and drop a button, double click it and enter some code, then cross your fingers and hope it runs without exploding. I’m self-taught in php & jQuery although i’m more of a ‘hacker’ than a developer. Html / css is where I’ve least trouble. Why? Because that’s the stuff I enjoy doing… i can see the results of that front end stuff immediately…
Social Networking is Broken
I never thought i’d say it but i’m getting a little bored of social media. Average content gets over-shared, automated ‘content’ gets shared whether we like it or not and businesses are becoming predictable in their marketing efforts online… It’s a real problem for the internet as a whole. It’s losing its value as a ‘community’.