Facebook Users Not Getting So Personal Anymore
If users stop posting personal status updates, Facebook could becomes less relevant and alienate the communities that enabled it to become what it is today.
Interaction is the lifeblood of social media. For the most part, social sites are only providing a platform, and the vast majority of the content is provided by the users. Unfortunately for Facebook, its users seem less willing to share personal content, which could lead to significant problems for the company in the future.
Quoting sources familiar with the matter, Bloomberg’s technology blog suggested that there is a “context collapse” happening on Facebook. Users are refraining from posting intimate content to the site in favor of sharing those moments through messaging services.
This shift is a result of several factors.
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