Social Media Going Through A ShakeUp Phase

Writing by Social Marketing Journal on Friday, September 19, 2008 Comments Off

Social media seems to be going through a phase of shakeups and shakeouts at present. StumbleUpon has recently made some changes and this followed Facebooks big change to profile pages. There are still a lot of mumblings and grumblings about those changes.

This last week has seen Yahoo! introducing a new look to their MyYahoo! Pages, it seems it may include new features and new functionality.

The latest to go through some changes is Twitter. Like most of the other changes, Twitter’s is more about looks than function. From what I can see there is little in the way of function changes, the look is certainly changing.

Twitter is probably one site that did need the change. Facebook on the other hand is still being questioned about its changes.

On the Shakeout site of things, there seems to have been a bit of a shakeout at Facebook with many having their accounts suspended, often for having to many friends – a social site with too many friends. You can figure that one out – I cannot.

StumbleUpon has finally decided to remove people from your friend’s lists if they have unsubscribed. At least now you will know that all your friends are actually active users.

Talking about StumbleUpon, it seems they may be up for sale. Anyone want to buy a social bookmarking site? Ebay have finally decided to divest itself of some of the poor purchases it made last year. StumbleUpon is the second to go with Ebay also selling of Skype. One wonders why they made these purchases since neither could be said to be complementary to their business.

Google were said to be interested in acquiring a bookmarking site. It will be interesting to see if they do go in for a sniff around. SU would probably offer a lot to Google. Of course Microsoft could step in if, for no other reason, to stop Google acquiring it. The winner then would be Ebay, particularly if a bidding war breaks out.

A lot of changes, and lot of updates, but when it all boils down, the actual functions of the various sites has remained fairly much unchanged, including the weaknesses.

Comments Off                      Category: Social Networking                      

Read similar posts in Social Networking

No Comments

No comments yet.

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.

Social Marketing Journal is a Blog that discusses all aspects of Social Media Optimization, Social Media Marketing, Social Networking and Reputation Management for the new and advanced reader.