Bell Ringing for Facebook?
January 15th, 2008
I’m at the Phuket Kings Cup at KaNaeng restaurant in Ao Chalong. I come up to say “hi” to a Darwin girl named Jo that I hadn’t seen in a year or so. She’s sort of a drifter, just sails around the world and well… drifts.
The best way to get in contact with Jo is to send smoke signals. And here she is, a couple of sheets to the wind, on an island off the coast of Thailand that just got running water and ADSL internet like, a week ago… And she’s being accosted by a couple of Westerner’s about Facebook.
“Oh, you MUST get a Facebook account!”, “You’re not on Facebook?”, “That’s impossible!”, “You have to get a Facebook account”, blah blah blah.. Jo’s all…
“umm, are you talking about the world wide web?”
I had an immediate flashback to a 1999 San Francisco cocktail party in Lower Haight overhearing a couple dreadlocked troglodytes talking about their portfolios with internet incubators like CMGI.
If there was ever a loud belling ringing signaling the peak of a bubble, it has to be that moment when you are at a cocktail party and overhear a couple of unlikely yahoo’s raving about the very fad that you wonder whether it’s reached it’s peak or not.
Here is an article on Facebook that sounds like my hunch may be correct:
“Facebook must reach a tipping point this year in growth and people will feel a lot better about supporting him if he {CEO Mark Zuckerberg} was little less robotic, and more open.”
Ok, so time to order in a new shipment of MonaVie to my friends in Myanmar.
