There is this news quite sensational, namely that on Monday, for the first time in history, a billion people are connected to Facebook. This social network has a half billion users, but everyone, as we know, connects occasionally. Instead, a billion together … Maybe they are not even imaginable.
1. It’s a success that Fb must share with smartphones. Without smartphones and the ease to connect from anywhere, one billion simultaneously could not be achieved. That says the founder Zuckerberg? A statement touched. “We have passed an important milestone. This number is different, it’s not like the monthly data that we communicate to financial results and that are averages, over all weighted. A land of seven was connected! This is just the first step to connect the entire planet. I am so proud of our community for the progress we have made. A world more open and connected is a better world. It brings stronger relationships with those you love, a stronger economy, with more opportunities, and a society that reflects our values. ”
2. It is true? Facebook is a kind of earthly paradise where everyone is happy? Who knows. The message of Zuckerberg in 25 minutes received 38,000 likes, 2,700 comments and 3,000 shares. The relevant video, five minutes, shot to celebrate the record, was seen 23,000 times and has 3,000 likes, 300 comments and 200 shares. As to your question, it is early to answer. What takes us on Facebook culturally? Meanwhile, I have the impression that increases the rate of solitude of each of us. We have so many friends on the Net that perhaps no longer so necessary to have friends in real life. The spectacle of a man and a woman, all well dressed, sat in the restaurant and each of the two heads down, busy with their phone … well, we see it all the time and not really exciting. Referring to Twitter, but that is in crisis, Umberto Eco said: “They give the right to speak to millions of imbeciles.” What to think of a billion connected last Monday? And then, to say what? But maybe I’m too old.
3. The financial results correspond to these apparent successes? Twitter grows less than expected (304 million users in the second quarter of 2015, against 302 million recorded in the previous quarter) and is in trouble, but the real reasons are to understand. However, technology stocks generally sail at full speed. On July 23, their Nasdaq index has reached a historic high. In fifteen years the number of people online has increased eight times. McKinsley has calculated that if the Internet was considered a company alone, now would charge more than the oil sector. Even more impressive when you consider that it all happened at the bottom in less than ten years. Facebook, for example, was born in February 2004 at Harvard.
4. What other industry leaders? Amazon, Apple and Google. With Facebook they have a GDP as rich as that of Spain. And, you’re right, this has contributed decisively to the spread of the smart phone. In 15 years we have gone from 400 million to 3.2 billion people connected to the web and means half of the 3.2 billion people on Earth. In 2005, the four leading companies invoiced 28.7 billion dollars. Last year they put together 350 billion. Facebook earns especially with advertising and has to deal with Google, which for now is front: 8% of the market compared to 32%. Apple has made her rich with smartphones and last year was the most profitable company in the world, with 39.5 billion of net profits. Amazon has instead guessed online business, on which for now does not beat anyone, and the exploitation of the “cloud”, which acts as a virtual data warehouse-to thousands of companies. His owner, Jeff Bezos, is the fifth richest man in the world. Hath also bought the Washington Post, which I consider revealing gesture of anxiety.
5 How so? Aside from Amazon and Apple, which ultimately sell “things”, the others rummage in a kind of vacuum, where paradoxically end missing its content. The idea is that Twitter is paying just that, his “stupidity”, to use the metaphor of Eco. Instagram, dedicated to photos – and it still is Zuckerberg – and especially snapchat, are growing, it seems, because they give something more than mere chatter. Instagram with which he alludes to the old Polaroid and snapchat (instant messaging service to exchange pictures or short videos), with the idea to get rid of any image after a few seconds, making it suddenly unavailable something in a world where everything is instead available instantly. The average user of snapchat is 18 years old, to Fb 40. It seems that among young progresses that thing very end that is the desire of regret .. & lt; /
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