Comments on: Asi joined the group “If this group Reaches 150,000 members I will name my son Batman”

By: No Man’s Blog » Go for the cars

No Man’s Blog » Go for the cars — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:32:48 +0000

[...] must be a way to facilitate car-sharing. When I wrote few months back that I’m waiting to see something more meaningful happens on facebook thats exactly what I [...]

By: asi

asi — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:20:00 +0000

thanks guys for your absolutely spot on comments. as I said, i’m there, having great time with this damn time-sucker playground… it is all very well put together and highly addictive.

let’s see how long will it last….I’m eager to see what will remain of it all after the hype. it might be even better.

trully yours,

officer no man’s.

By: Dino

Dino — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:27:00 +0000

hey asi, did you see this:

http://www.bigshinything.com/if-july

by the way asi, you do know you’ve been appointed an officer in the plannersphere group, right?

By: ant

ant — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:26:33 +0000

hey dude. I mostly agree with that guy above. however, I do think facebook has cracked social media (basically profiles, links to friends) for a more mainstream audience of people our age, mainly due to being really well put together. But also they cracked the immediacy, continuous-partial-attention side of human gossip. The newsfeed - recognising that essentially, people love knowing who’s doing what to who. I watch people int he office on facebook all the time, and girls especially just spend endless time clicking on people they know and seeing which people they also know, or who’s attending what events and stuff, or who’s said what to who. It’s the fuel of life.

I feel that now facebook is just going to become a fuzzy address book with smalltalk engine, and sure, a better one might come out soon, but I don’t think there’s anything too profound about it.

also, I quit my job! handed in months notice last week, and will be freelancing for a bit I think, nothing major lined up or anything… hope all’s well

By: Dino

Dino — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:03:19 +0000

on one level, we’re just hanging out, and is there ever any point to that, really?!
beyond socialising. but the question of deriving real, practical value, i don’t know asi, i think it may be early days to see how this pans out.

a couple of more near-term areas that i would keep an eye out for though in the evolution of facebook (and other social networks, but facebook is the obvious leader at this point).
-shopping and commerce leveraging trusted networks (amazon will lead here)
-making linkedin obsolete would be easy for facebook at this point. job searching and referrals from the network would be another way for the medium to introduce value for members.

but beyond these types of valuable services, it will be just as interesting to observe the evolution of flow and presence withing social media (i love stowe boyd’s thoughts on this); for that, we’re barely in the crawling stages, so don’t be so quick to pass judgement!

By: Udy

Udy — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:59:17 +0000

mate, wake up, you’re looking for too much meaning in social life. People move from one social networking site to another in the same way that they’re moving from one trendy bar to another. Nothing new about that. The only constant is that there will always be A trendy bar (site). Socializing is meaning. Also, as in bars, at some point you stop moving with the herd (too old for this s**t) and settle down in your favorite one (blogging). At some point, as we all know, you move on from this one as well…Anyway, you’ll still be able to find me. At home