Well, the votes are in, and it seems Facebook is now the heir to the Myspace generation.
I knew people were using it in preference to general social sites, but increasingly it seems as if it’s also replacing the likes of LinkedIn for business use.
The reason seems to be that despite the attraction of niches, Facebook has enough mass to allow you to connect to a lot of people fairly quickly. It also gently restricts you to concentrating people you actually know, or had lost touch with. And it’s simple to use, to include pics and videos, and to install countless interesting applications.
I did worry the Apps would get distracting, but as long as I can avoid the more frivolous ones, there’s some interesting stuff. So far I’ve added an Instant Messaging App, a Twitter App and the feed from here…who knows what’s next…
In the meantime, I’ll still have my old profiles, and I think there’s still mileage in LinkedIn…
So if you want to drop me a connection:
Badger on Myspace
Badger on Facebook
Badger on LinkedIn
Badger on Twitter
EDIT: 10:19pm:
I just found that my StumbleUpon addiction also has a facebook app. Dammit.