Why the doomsaying techies are wrong about Facebook

It feels like it’s hard to look around the blogosphere now without seeing the tech elite decrying Facebook for their privacy issues, lack of new, useful features, and inability to control applications (although I think they’re doing a good job).

The problem is that, like the tech elite with the MacBook Air, we often don’t get it.

Facebook was popular before we all decided it was cool, because it served a social purpose.

Facebook will be popular after we all decide it’s not cool anymore, because it still serves a social purpose.

I think what we’re seeing is that a bunch of the tech crowd got really excited about the developer platform and the opportunities built into the underlying, fundamentally cool technology behind social networks. But now it’s getting more mainstream and consequently more boring.

So the people who were excited about Facebook because the tecnology was cool are getting ready to move on.

But the people who are excited about Facebook because of how it lets them connect and communicate and create and manage community are just getting started.

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