By BRAVETTA HASSELL Scene Writer on May 18, 2012, at 5:03 PM Updated on 5/18 at 5:04 PM
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Earlier this week, a columnist at
Forbes magazine warned readers to stay away from the Facebook IPO: The social media site has reached its zenith, the columnist Mark Evans asserted. Facebook has nowhere to go but down.
While not at all the economist, I easily wonder what would have happened had the goliath gone public earlier. Whether you’ve invested or not, or are optimistic about Facebook’s future, it definitely will continue to exist and influence our culture, but to what extent?
Mashable reports that new data released by comScore shows 40 percent of Facebook users are on another social network. Last year around this time, the site reports, it was 20 percent.
If people aren’t using Facebook alone, there is a good chance they are also on Twitter. The simple but far-reaching social medium is the most popular secondary network to Facebook with 23.8 percent of Facebook account holders also using Twitter. LinkedIn comes in after with about 20 percent and following that are Google+, Tumblr and Pinterest, respectively.
If there is such a thing as social media fatigue, what does that mean for Facebook and its peers? Will there be a huge shift from one platform to another? Will another network appear on the scene (as they tend to do) and give people another medium to consider and/or pile onto their heaping plate of social media offerings? Or will it all just become too much, too noisy and we all just throw our hands up, deactivate our accounts and go back to the ole telephone and notebook way of connecting with each other? The latter, I just don't see happening.
But I’m curious, what role if any does social media play in your life? Do you use a potpourri of platforms or try to keep it to just one or two? How do you choose?
Be back soon.
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