Article: “Facebook goes after Twitter with public status updates”
Source: Econsultancy

By integrating Twitter / microblogging-like features in the interface of Facebook, they hope to become an indispensible service for people online.
The privacy features will also apply to the status updates (Everyone / Friends and Network / Friends of Friends / Friends / Custom ).

It’s an interesting remark made in the article, where it states that the utility of catching up with friends online has a shelf life. Is this caused by the utility or human behavior or the platform itself?
Coummunication itself has no shelf life, so the utility neither, that the interaction takes place online should not matter.
I personally think it has to do with the quality of the platform and the intrinsic quality of the community on that platform.

What’s your opinion?

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