Facebook introduces New Technology
The social networking site Facebook recently announced that they were providing support for external developers to create and add functionality to the Facebook website.
This appears to be a technological advance, because now Facebook will be able to organically change as new functionality is added, without Facebook really being involved. This sounds like a very interesting advance and something to look forward to. As the demand for certain functionality arises, then developers will see the opportunity and jump in.
However, as usually there might be some real downsides!
During some recent research, we spoke to over 100 people about social and business networking and asked them what they thought of the platforms that they had visited. I have also spoken with a number of people who joined Ecademy, stayed for a week or so then never came back.
One of the main responses I received was that these platforms are not easy to use or understand. Ecademy for example, was said to be confusing and complex! To us, who use Ecademy every day, it is not difficult, but to others who could become potential paid members are they being put off and leaving?
Does the innovations at Facebook, no doubt followed by all the others social networking platforms as well, not lead to more and more complex and ‘geeky’ functionality? Will this not put people off even more?
Of course you cannot always make everything easy for everyone, and perhaps those who can’t be bothered to explore and learn how a site works should leave and not come back! But maybe that is a short sighted answer!
Do you think that in general these platforms are difficult to use?
Which ones are better than others?
What do you think?
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1 comment:
Good words.
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