Facebook. Too Cool For its Own Good?

I read an interesting blog about Facebook the other day. Facebook as we all know has infiltrated main stream media and is one of the leading social networks currently. It recently “catched up” with Myspace.com in terms of site traffic. I was also listening to CNN yesterday and they mentioned that Facebook now has about 200 million members and the anchors were discussing how everybody is on Facebook. A sure sign that a social network is doing something right, right? Well according to this blog by Clarke Levidiotis, a blogger who writes about online culture for RFI studios, Facebook is losing its “coolness” because of the fact that everyone is a member. “There is a short life expectancy for cool things on the Internet, and one could argue Facebooks’s demise began when it began allowing Baby-Boomer-age parents and middle schoolers to sign up.”
I must agree with this statement. Although I love my parents to death, they too now have a Facebook. And to make matters worse my mother’s profile picture is a picture of ME and my brother and sister, so there is no hiding that one. And apparently she is well knowledge with the internet, because she recently put an album up of the family and actually tagged me to some pictures. I thought it a bit peculiar to be friends with my mom on Facebook and I am sure there are hundreds of young people out there that may feel this way, so perhaps this might be the beginning of the end.
But also as with MySpace, when Facebook emerged people began to shy away from MySpace and Facebook became a very big competitor. And as we see now one of the leading social networks. I think the same might happen between Facebook and Twitter. Twitter is becoming insanely popular and as Levidiotis mentioned “There is a short life expectancy for cool things on the internet.” So perhaps we are now witnessing the slow decline and maybe much needed death of Facebook.