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…
decline
traffic in decline
I’m not used to blogging about stats that are on a downward trend, but that’s what this post is all about. So far in 2010, traffic to this blog is down 15% on the previous year…
the rise and fall of social networks
In february 2008, i posted this article about how i felt bebo was in decline despite growing rapidly and posting record stats at the time.
Quoting myself, “No doubt revenue is up and traffic is flying, but it’s short term gain for long term sacrafice. They are driving people like me away from bebo.” Looking back, i called it right. At the time i didn’t even mention myspace because in my eyes it had no future.
Look at the search trends below (using google insights) for bebo from from 2004 – present. Look at when they peaked… August 2008 (6 months after i published that ‘bebo has gone to hell’ post).
