I was visiting some friends at a major US university last weekend, a few who are a Djs and party promoters when they said something that struck me. "The freshman aren't really using facebook [to find parties] anymore."
We went on to talk about how there was a very low signal to noise ratio on it nowadays with too many promoters sending to many unwanted messages and how having family on it has changed things as well.
Apprently they're moving more to twitter and tumblr to a certain extent
this does not bode well for facebook
Also I think it was a big mistake to take status updates from the center of the header on profile pages. It let you broadcast more about how you are at a moment vs who in general
We went on to talk about how there was a very low signal to noise ratio on it nowadays with too many promoters sending to many unwanted messages and how having family on it has changed things as well.
Apprently they're moving more to twitter and tumblr to a certain extent
this does not bode well for facebook
Also I think it was a big mistake to take status updates from the center of the header on profile pages. It let you broadcast more about how you are at a moment vs who in general