I came across two articles today which are related – one informing us that Facebook had finally made it to number 1 in a league of social networking sites:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/06/facebook_over_only_in_islingto.html
and the other telling us that minining the social netspace for business is a waste of time and energy.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/17/isosystems_networking_talk/
Like many things in life I was a late comer to Facebook and within a few weeks of me joining was being told by all and sundry that Facebook was a spent force and that all the cool kids were probably going elsewhere. My first thought was ‘Thank God – no more being poked by a dead sheep’ or whatever, followed by a quick examination of how many contacts I had in Facebook overlapped with contacts in my E-Mail directory.