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I'm seeing a lot of my real-life, non-geek friends using Instagram like a "Facebook of years ago".

They all have fairly small friend lists comprised of people they actually see in real life. Plus Instagram has that slight "exclusiveness" to it because it is iOS only.

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It's really amazing how trends move, yet it's hard to put your finger on why exactly some things become such hits, why they fade, and why most never get big.

I think everyone in the geek community can sense that Facebook is beginning its (probably very long, slow) descent, but I don't know exactly why I don't use it much anymore. It's just not fun or worth my time like it used to be.

For me it was less a way to have discussions and more about the fun of collecting every person you ever knew, but now that you have "collected them all" I have stopped using it.

I know why I use it less and less - because the more they feel the need to broadcast everything I say and do to all the world, the less I feel like doing anything. also, the ui has just been feeling really tedious to use lately.

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