Judging from the eager way in which people are seizing on this tiny bit of evidence, it seems like a lot of people want FB to fail. And when you want something to be true you should be especially skeptical of evidence for it.
Sites have flat spots. I would be careful before counting those guys out.
You think people want Facebook to fail? My impression is the opposite.
Seems like everyone with money invested in web 2.0 really wants them to succeed. Your argument works equally well there. Don't be so sure of Facebook's infallibility, either.
True. If Facebook fails then it's all the "web 2.0" world that will be affected, I hear a lot of people talking of another bubble about web 2.0. Some want their convinctions vindicated, others want to save their start up and money.
My bet is that the truth is in the middle as usual, just like when the first bubble bursted, it was a godsend who cleaned up all the mess produced by the basical non-understanding of the internet.
totally agree. especially since the stats this article cites are just a 5% drop in UK users month to month
hardly indicative of epic fail
You have to understand that the average facebook user doesn't know who created facebook or what beacon is. Facebook will be around for a long while yet because it provides a useful service with a really big inertia.
Sites have flat spots. I would be careful before counting those guys out.