facebook has hit that incredibly difficult point where they can't do anything cool anymore. the outrage that happens every time they introduce even the slightest change is huge; if they try to do anything cool they risk alienating a huge portion of their users. at with their current growth rate, they don't need to change anything.
Maybe they're doing it wrong, then? Google adds features that fundamentally alter my web-experience all the time, but nobody minds because they either
-package it as a completely separate product with its own url (gmail.com, maps.google.com, etc.) before gradually integrating it into search results and other products.
-make them optional (i.e. Google Instant, Gmail Labs)
-do a test run on a small subset of users (which Facebook does only to test before they scale, seemingly never to determine if the change will piss off users)
In short, maybe continually tweaking core features like Messages, the Timeline, Photos, etc. isn't the only way or even the most effective way they can leverage their almighty graph.
There's been a couple stories lately about them having negative growth rate of users. It's not really clear if that translates into a negative growth rate in pageviews or whether their pageview-per-user is still increasing..
are you sure that's a negative growth rate, or a declining growth rate? i'm pretty sure their net growth rate is still positive, even if it's slowing down.
If I am reading it right they are saying there is negative growth rate is the US and Canada, but still positive growth rate in emerging markets resulting in an overall positive but declining growth rate.
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facebook has hit that incredibly difficult point where they can't do anything cool anymore. the outrage that happens every time they introduce even the slightest change is huge; if they try to do anything cool they risk alienating a huge portion of their users. at with their current growth rate, they don't need to change anything.
Maybe they're doing it wrong, then? Google adds features that fundamentally alter my web-experience all the time, but nobody minds because they either
-package it as a completely separate product with its own url (gmail.com, maps.google.com, etc.) before gradually integrating it into search results and other products. -make them optional (i.e. Google Instant, Gmail Labs) -do a test run on a small subset of users (which Facebook does only to test before they scale, seemingly never to determine if the change will piss off users)
In short, maybe continually tweaking core features like Messages, the Timeline, Photos, etc. isn't the only way or even the most effective way they can leverage their almighty graph.
There's been a couple stories lately about them having negative growth rate of users. It's not really clear if that translates into a negative growth rate in pageviews or whether their pageview-per-user is still increasing..
are you sure that's a negative growth rate, or a declining growth rate? i'm pretty sure their net growth rate is still positive, even if it's slowing down.
It's not really clear. Their new user sign-ups are certainly declining, but "new user signups" cannot possibly be negative.
Based on this article: http://news.oneindia.in/2011/06/13/tech-facebook-growth-rate...
If I am reading it right they are saying there is negative growth rate is the US and Canada, but still positive growth rate in emerging markets resulting in an overall positive but declining growth rate.