I’ve just read they will add more buttons to each story. Timeline crap, new ticker.. Their effort is to keep you on their site as much as possibile, and that’s bad why:
- You are there to stalk women
- You are there to see the news
- You are there to meet new pretty ladies
- You are there find funny and useful links
We need to make the lolbook, this right there is what users want
You are not there to inform content creators of their content value (3431 Reads, 210 Likes, Hmmm very accurate – wtf). Facebook worked well because it was used for all the other sites, now it is trying to replace all the other sites.
Basically their mistake is adding lots of new features, instead of making everything easy and quick like it used to be.
I am not saying they wont be succesful, their 750,000,000 user count is a great motivator to stay on. However, their new user retention will decrease, their site will become crowded and confusing. Under this conditions google plus will gain market share.
Regardless, the social crowd will go wherever the pretty ladies go. So keep them happy, men are only there for their pics.. right and “networking” and wrestling status updates (?).
~Om.