Socializing with 8,000 friends a day

摘要

There's an old quotation attributed to baseball great Yogi Berra, referring to a popular restaurant: "Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded." I'm beginning to think the same is true of some of the IT applications and services we use. Or used to use. For instance, lots of people made a big deal out of the fact that Bill Gates stopped using his Facebook account. It wasn't because the social networking site didn't work — it worked too well. Gates was getting 8,000 requests a day from people who wanted to be his friend.