{"id":30283,"date":"2010-10-22T00:37:49","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T08:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=7353"},"modified":"2010-10-22T00:37:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T08:37:49","slug":"a-sign-that-facebook-has-peaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/22\/a-sign-that-facebook-has-peaked\/","title":{"rendered":"A sign that Facebook has peaked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Gene-Expression\/153421828033219?v=wall\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2010\/10\/facebook-icon-copy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>The other day NPR&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/2010\/10\/14\/130575234\/we-bought-gold\">Planet Money<\/a> quipped that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shareswatch.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/charts\/10-year-gold-price-chart-jul-09.jpg\">gold bubble was going to burst<\/a> soon, as they&#8217;d decided to buy gold. Well, perhaps Facebook is nearing its bursting point&#8230;I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Gene-Expression\/153421828033219?v=wall\">created a Gene Expression fan page<\/a>. I don&#8217;t have a good sense of the great utility of this sort of thing&#8230;you can after all find the two GNXP weblogs on the world wide web pretty easily. And I feed the blog posts to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/gnxpweblog\">two<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/razibkhan\">twitter<\/a> accounts. I can see the value-add of Facebook&#8217;s selective semi-permeability when it comes to the &#8220;social graph&#8221;, but less so for websites which have a robust presence on the internet. GNXP in some form has been around for <em>over<\/em> 8 years. I can&#8217;t but help feel that this is a flashier <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GeoCities\">Geocities<\/a> fan page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day NPR&#8217;s Planet Money quipped that the gold bubble was going to burst soon, as they&#8217;d decided to buy gold. Well, perhaps Facebook is nearing its bursting point&#8230;I created a Gene Expression fan page. I don&#8217;t have a good sense of the great utility of this sort of thing&#8230;you can after all find [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,303,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}