No, Facebook is dead...

Updated:122208
Here's a POV of the actual users on Facebook. Interesting that they generate no money on the millions of users. Obviously they need to establish a "presence" not just and impression via banner ad's... The plot thickens.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/business/media/14digi.html?_r=1&ref=business

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Can this be true? Or is this just about the techno-freaks leaving the fold? We have seen this happen before (Compuserve,AOL,Napster,etc). It seems the migration is on in ernest ...

Can the Facebook Management actually say this (30 million NEW users and 120 million active users)or have they just gone mad? How many dummy accounts, accounts never used, etc. actually exist? As well, what is defined as active? Once a day posting or logging in or once a week? Seeing that they have logs for all accounts, then Facebook knows "exactly" how many accounts they have as well as what level of "active" they actually are. What are they? Should we go on?

What seems to be true is that it is the largest Social Network Platform in the world. All in the last 3 months.

notes:
Lot's of hype going on ... Marketing?
Capitalizing on the traffic should be possible if not easy. Transaction based model.


Reference:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10081341-2.html
http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/12/14/advertising-on-social-networks-fail/

Data mining has been going on forever ...

What is going on here?
Why do we keep hearing about Famous tech types (what's that?) having it up to their ears that they are being Friended or Pinged to death?

And why are people so surprised that FaceBook and other Data Generating sites would actually not want to use the Data for as long as possible? At a minimum they are mining that data to maximize their own GUI and UI. With millions of active users, it is astounding what their Architects can come up with. Establishing an Advertising model, knowingly, is precisly what this site had in mind when they outlined and posted their Interface (website)from the start. Otherwise they would have made it easy to hide personnel information sooner. They are to good to have missed that for so long. They waited for user response before they acted.