{"id":198171,"date":"2007-12-06T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/06\/facebook-has-not-jumped-the-shark-it-is-in-the-tank-being-devoured\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T00:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T05:15:00","slug":"facebook-has-not-jumped-the-shark-it-is-in-the-tank-being-devoured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/06\/facebook-has-not-jumped-the-shark-it-is-in-the-tank-being-devoured\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Has Not Jumped the Shark, It Is In the Tank, Being Devoured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Quittner has a <a href=\"http:\/\/techland.blogs.fortune.cnn.com\/2007\/12\/04\/rip-facebook\/\">very well written essay on Facebook<\/a>, and I loved the opening &#8216;graph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A lot of people say that Facebook has jumped the shark. That\u2019s flat out wrong. In fact, Facebook is now being devoured by the shark. There\u2019s so much blood in the water, it\u2019s attracting other sharks. And if Facebook\u2019s not careful, one of them is bound to come along and finish it off. I\u2019ve never seen anything like it in the annals of fast-rising tech companies that fail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Love the devoured by shark bit.  Go read the essay, and the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Quittner has a very well written essay on Facebook, and I loved the opening &#8216;graph: A lot of people say that Facebook has jumped the shark. That\u2019s flat out wrong. In fact, Facebook is now being devoured by the shark. There\u2019s so much blood in the water, it\u2019s attracting other sharks. And if Facebook\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,997,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-internet","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}