Facebook ,despite its much touted growth is set lose ground in vital markets,US, Indonesia,UK,France,
Main reason is people are getting bored with the trivia they are sharing and being shared with in Facebook.
Though interesting and tantalizing at first , the superficial relationship one establishes ,loses its sheen over a period of time as face to face relationship can never be substituted.
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Facebook, the online social grid, could not command loyalty forever. If you ask around, as I did, you’ll find quitters. One person shut down her account because she disliked how nosy it made her. Another thought the scene had turned desperate. A third feared stalkers. A fourth believed his privacy was compromised. A fifth disappeared without a word.
The disillusionment with Facebook has come in waves. An early faction lost faith in 2008, when Facebook’s beloved Scrabble application, Scrabulous, was pulled amid copyright issues. It was suddenly clear that Facebook was not just a social club but also an expanding force on the Web, beholden to corporate interests. A later group, Harmsen’s crowd, grew frustrated last winter when Facebook seemed to claim perpetual ownership of users’ contributions to the site. (Facebook later adjusted its membership contract, but it continues to integrate advertising, intellectual property and social life.) A third wave of dissenters appears to be bored with it, obscurely sore or just somehow creeped out.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/magazine/30FOB-medium-t.html
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