Former Facebook president Sean Parker suggests that if Facebook has a weakness, its alienating power users with too much data, rather than what most think to be privacy issues.
In a Web 2.0 Summit conference with co-chair Tom O’Reilly, Marc Benioff (CEO of Salesforce.com) said, “We’re on the threshold of a new industry with data. I really think that Facebook is becoming a vision and execution of the next generation consumer operating system. Facebook shows where the industry is headed and sets the pace for what we should be doing in the enterprise world.”
Benioff is basing his admiration on the fact that enterprise users and customers are participating in Facebook. He said it’s where people are going and learning how to share.
Parker thinks that Facebook’s biggest problem centers on the “glut of information that overwhelms power users.” Parker said it could potentially lead said users to be pushed toward Google+ or Twitter. He believes that Facebook should be more concentrated on how to “give its users better tools to control shared data more effectively” rather than to throw all the data at the power user at once.
“For John Donahoe, president and CEO of eBay, Facebook is not a threat but an ally. Donahoe talked about eBay's strong relationship with Facebook and its exploration of ways to connect its PayPal payment system to Facebook Credits. "Shopping is very social,” he said. eBay's challenge is to become an e-commerce platform system for retailers, a company offering not just a sales channel but computing infrastructure. Donahoe sees e-commerce and retail becoming one and the same. In over 50% of all retail transactions, consumers access the Web at some point in the shopping cycle, he said” (Claburn).
The aforementioned quote from Claburn’s article involving CEO of eBay John Donahoe really struck a chord with me. Most of the time when I am thinking about a purchase, big or small, I generally attempt to research it online, and many times I will end up making the purchase online as well.
Former Facebook president and investor Sean Parker also had comments that rang true to my thoughts on the current state of Facebook. There usually seems to be quite a bit of unwarranted information and data that I end up being subjected to when I log onto my account. If Facebook could generate some way to alter or filter what (and how much) information and data is presented to the user, I could see that being extremely beneficial to many if not all users of the site.
Facebook's Flaw
I definitely agree with you as far as your thoughts on Facebook. I almost feel bombarded with unnecessary information when I log on. I think that Facebook could be a lot more useful if users were able to filter what types of things they wanted to see on their homepages. The Internet and social media sites are obviously extremely important in this day and age, but companies need to figure out how to use both efficiently and effectively.
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