The Communications Room

I don’t know why I’m using Facebook less and less these days, perhaps I’m too busy, maybe my online life is more professionally skewed or perhaps I just sub-consciously don’t like the new interface? But when I logged on today my inbox was full with what I can only describe as ‘Friend spam’. These are friends who I haven’t seen for ages but have a vested interest in peddling their own stuff my way. Perhaps it’s the media circles I’m in darling, but it it’s a bit irritating. If they were such great mates they would know I’m half way across the world and can’t come back every Friday to listen to him DJ.

In response to this I have lovingly installed this anti social networking app. But on a more serious note it’s going to be interesting to see how people react to things like social ads and general developments in the monetisation of social networks. Essentially they will live and die by how contextual they can make the ads. There will probably be the usual ‘join the get rid of social ads group’, then everyone will get get over it.