Comments on: memcached (and facebook) http://mikepultz.com/2008/12/memcached-and-facebook/ personal and professional blog of mike pultz, technology specialist and serial entrepreneur. Fri, 11 May 2012 19:07:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Nat http://mikepultz.com/2008/12/memcached-and-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Nat Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:08:40 +0000 http://mikepultz.com/?p=29#comment-5 A couple of weeks ago I got an invitation from a friend (who I already know on Facebook, and in real time, real life!) for Reunion.com. I didn't look into the invite or the site since I felt I wasn't quite ready to jump Facebook ship. Maybe it's the apps that actually keep Facebook fresh. That is to say, even if Facebook plateaus, I'm not sure I'll have at the same time. Of course, if the trend is to abandon the site in favour for another, then I would have to follow suit. That is the trick of social networking sites: keeping those people there. I know many were disappointed with the Facebook redesign launched a few months ago. I think the use of apps actually suffered because of it, which is the counter-argument of what I mentioned earlier about keeping Facebook fresh. Time will tell. What I wonder is, if the next social networking trend is really not about social networking anymore. Maybe the plateau really isn't about a "reunion" but an "un-union." Maybe the next "web community" created will be based around detaching from acquaintances or associations made in other social networking sites, so the individual cannot "search" you out in other places when excluded from one. Sinister, but from behind the screen, un-social networking is very easy to do.... A couple of weeks ago I got an invitation from a friend (who I already know on Facebook, and in real time, real life!) for Reunion.com. I didn’t look into the invite or the site since I felt I wasn’t quite ready to jump Facebook ship. Maybe it’s the apps that actually keep Facebook fresh. That is to say, even if Facebook plateaus, I’m not sure I’ll have at the same time. Of course, if the trend is to abandon the site in favour for another, then I would have to follow suit. That is the trick of social networking sites: keeping those people there. I know many were disappointed with the Facebook redesign launched a few months ago. I think the use of apps actually suffered because of it, which is the counter-argument of what I mentioned earlier about keeping Facebook fresh. Time will tell.

What I wonder is, if the next social networking trend is really not about social networking anymore. Maybe the plateau really isn’t about a “reunion” but an “un-union.” Maybe the next “web community” created will be based around detaching from acquaintances or associations made in other social networking sites, so the individual cannot “search” you out in other places when excluded from one. Sinister, but from behind the screen, un-social networking is very easy to do….

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