For the average person though, who uses the internet on a basic level, for things like the tasks mentioned above, Facebook is used almost entirely as a social and entertainment tool. Many companies have banned employees from using Facebook at work, and most people use the game and fun applications most frequently.

In the last few months, I have seen my invites to add various applications decrease quite steadily, and from my feed, people are not adding applications as much as they were in their Facebook ‘honeymoon’ phase. Also, people have not stopped using other applications like Flickr, Google Calendar, email, chat programs and so on, even if some people are using them less.

The average person I know, including myself, uses Facebook as in addition to these other applications, and many people I know are only logging on for a few hours a day at most. After the novelty wears off, it becomes more like an extended contact system with a lot of fun extras – lots of useful tools, but it will never replace the programs I use on a daily basis, more like compliment them.

Semantic web trends have been evident for a very long time now and a complete restructure of the web is definitely on the way. There’s a video called next 5000 days of the internet, you should definitely watch it!

Amazon has a few projects called EC2 and S3, this too was a critical move for the future of the internet!

Nice article dude!