DISQUS

I wrote about something similar on my blog although it was more about the credibility gap between personal blogs and corporate blogs:

Speaking as someone who works full-time as a salaried corporate blogger (among my other responsibilities,) I gotta say that most of the things on your list are things that I have yet to run into. I don't have a shortage of things to say on my company's blog. The whitewash / greenwash / astro-turfing stuff usually only happens when you let a sales guy transform every blog entry into a sales pitch. Yes, the company owns the content, but it's not like I can't link to it from my personal blog if I am so inclined. Being a corporate blogger is my work so it does come first, and I have no reservations about injecting my personal opinion into my pieces so long as it doesn't detract from my company's message.

Was a noble effort, but ultimately this is a pretty weak list.

Saw this via the conversation you started on LinkedIn. I like the post, but those videos are going to haunt me for the rest of my life :(

In all seriousness, Twitter does have some major noise control issues. I usually unfollow people at the first sign of "giving my dog a bath," "I TOTALLY LOVE CEREAL," and so on.

Where did you get the $150 million in revenue figure from? I had heard that FB's revenue was significantly less than that.

The man who spoke and whom I happen to agree with wasn't trying to say per-say that college and high school students don't have any money to spend; what he meant was trying to grab up as much real estate (users who have installed your application) without any discretion as to whom your target audience should be is a waste of time in a lot of cases. High school and college students were his example simply because they do, in fact, constitute the largest portion of users and they do not have as much buying power as many other demographics present on Facebook.

So do you disagree with him then in which regard? That high school and college students don't spend as much money as self-sufficient people who use Facebook? That buying up as much real estate as possible without any idea on how to use it is a bad idea?

You are not alone. I just wrote an article myself discussing the causes of Facebook Application Fatigue. If you'd like to read it: http://www.ajaxninja.com/?p=88