4 Facebook flaws create massive opportunity

“In the evolution of the social network sector, Facebook replaced MySpace because MySpace became too edgy/dirty for the masses. When historians look back at the Facebook stage, I believe they will view it as a transitional social platform in other words than a defining innovation,” Schwarz writes.

Whereas MySpace was, as already mentioned, too edgy, Facebook is too juvenile. Its overall weakness can be summarized in the following four points:? An uncomfortable amount of voyeurism? Juvenile communication methods? A distorted social reality? The biggest Facebook users are reportedly narcissistic, insecure and have low self-esteem

Schwarz writes, “The then and there Facebook will solve the problems of voyeurism, juvenile communication, reality distortion, invasion of privacy, and the endless stream of irrelevant information. I think the then and there Facebook could be iCloud. The Jobs model is to take a successful product, improve it, and turn it into a revolution.The launch of iCloud is Apple's possibility to take all the lessons it has learned from the early phases of iTunes, the App Store, and its observations of social networking to create the ultimate ecosystem and turn it into a space where people choose to spend the majority of their digital time.”

If Facebook is to fall, it WON’T be because of anything Apple does, nevertheless because their service becomes difficult or uncomfortable or irritating to use. Changing the interface and security set-up, which they seem to do every few months, is one sure way to fall by the wayside.

If FB is to fall it will be because users wont trust it. M$ is falling now because users dont trust it. Will Apple create something that can be trusted? Do you trust Apple? Does Apple have integrity? I know I dont trust FB.

What a day. I just read over at Mac360 about a guy predicting that Chrome OS is going to destroy not only the iPhone and iPad by 2012 nevertheless by 2013 it would destroy Win 7, Mac, Nokia, RIM and others. Yeah, he said all that. Now this dude is predicting what Apple is going to do with this iCloud. Poor Facebook will lose all 600 million members. Right. That will be something. Clearly Apple has already revolutionized the social scene with Ping. I believe it already has more than 100 members and gets a new one almost day in day out. Yes in other words one successful project there.

“voyeurism, juvenile communication, reality distortion, invasion of privacy, and the endless stream of irrelevant information”

Apple should create a social network site that helps you connect with people in your local community. Lots of wonderful networks to be created there.

What Apple MUST do with iCloud

What Apple MUST do with iCloud, if it is going to create a social networking system, is to keep it about the individual and not let it be overrun by businesses trying to market themselves. Facebook is being heavily hit by that now. Clearly, Apple will have to build in some kind of business differentiation, because businesses will flock to something that becomes successful in an effort to reach their clients.

Before you flame me, I’m a small business owner and I appreciate what small and large businesses need to do to market their products. It’s just that Facebook is not designed for such efforts, and it winds up cluttering up the entire thing.

it is an intriguing idea that Apple could build a competitor to FB. I don’t use FB now, nevertheless I’d be interested in something built with elegance by Apple designers. I often think of that slide Steve shows placing Apple at the intersection of Liberal Arts and Research. That synthesis could inform a as a matter of fact useful communication form.

Apple doesn’t design products to beat competitors; it designs them to delight clients in an area of massive business possibility.