Right, I've got my drinking hat on...
Yes, Google and their kin are storing yattabytes of our pics, vids, blogs and odds...
But who will ultimately give a rat's posterior?
My Facebook page is chocka with a tonne of posts from one friend, who posts ceaselessly, barely lightly tainted by the rare comment from my 3 dozen other "friends" - some of whom are bands who friended me because I downloaded their free sampler (Love it, but won't pay for more of the same, cos I'm a stingy sod)
My Google+ is like a ghost town, and serves well as an alternative to "invitees only" email as so far I have no spam on it.
How can Google expect to compete with Facebook as a social network any more than Bing! can compete with Google as a search engine? I don't want to end up communicating 3 times with the same people! I'm gonna stick with the system that's already the most comprehensive.
It's like the old corner stores that used to complain that the supermarkets were undercutting them. Basic evolution - if you can't compete, you won't survive...
Tough cookie.
(The last line was not intended as a pun....but it would be good if it had been)
Well, it was nice chatting with you - if you're there?
What's it called again, 'The Network Effect'.
ReplyDeleteThe network with the most people is the none everyone goes to.
So all the other networks shrivel and die.
It's all about understanding what your core business is, and how to make THAT keep working, instead of trying to diversify to the point where you have no reputation...almost like the Peter Principle - the greedy giant corporate dinosaur expands into the markets it is least able to compete in, then gets stuck there (Although, unlike Peter, they have more dimensions to diversify into)
ReplyDeleteMicrosoft have been on the edge of this change several times already.