I’m sure some of you have heard the news that geocities is finally dead. It was the place to get your own spot on the internet back in the day. I was still too young to understand coding, but I got one at the time (I can’t even remember what I put on there now).
Soon enough the internet exploded with more and more opportunities. I used to have a Xanga account (actually I still do, but I never update any more), which is the original namesake of this blog. In high school that’s where I blogged. Now I don’t know anybody that still uses it.
Then came Myspace. I never really liked it, but I used it until Facebook opened up to my college (back in the days when only college students could get an account).
Now I’ve got a twitter and this blog. I use these two things most and just check Facebook more and more rarely. It seems like there’s always something bigger and better around the corner, doesn’t it? That’s why I think that Facebook will eventually go the way of Geocities. What do you think?
MSE
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It’s inevitable. BTW, I always wondered–what does your blog title mean?
It’s a term used in the Matrix movies (specifically the second one). They had to bring their ship up to broadcast depth in order to connect someone to the matrix. I took it for a blog in the same sort of way. Only here the ship would be my computer and the matrix is just the internet. The broadcast is my posts.
I don’t think so. Facebook has caught on more than with the younger crowds. Plus with like 300,000 users worldwide it’s hard to figure out what would get them all to change. I think it’s here to stay for quite a while. I don’t see what any future competitors can offer that it doesn’t already provide or what they could do better.
We shall have to see. I give it another three years before people flock to something else.