Stop the Hype?

November 2nd, 2007

So I am sure some of you are like stop the Open Social hype already. It is apparent by things I have been hearing that many people don’t see any impact of Open Social. Perhaps this graph will help open some eyes.

As you can see Open Social has more than FIVE times the traffic that Facebook has. People can say Open Social is for the “second tier” social networks, but honestly, I don’t get the Facebook hype. The only upside I ever saw was tapping into their traffic/market share. This graph clearly indicates to me that Open Social buries them in this facet. Why write a application on FaceBook’s platform, when I could write on my own platform and connect to FIVE times the traffic? I knew I should have bought Google stock two weeks ago. Buying at $660 and selling for $720 would have been nice 8 day investment.