6:05 am - 04/05/2011
James Franco has bemoaned social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, claiming that the fad is "over".
The 127 Hours actor told Politico that he feels too much time is wasted on the sites and insisted that the trend will no longer be relevant in a few years' time.
"Social media is over. Still up there. Going down. You heard it here first," he said.
"If you want to write, make the time. We all have an hour or two a day that can be used for surfing Facebook or writing. No one is going to beg any new writer to write."
He also admitted to being frustrated by the responses received about his own Twitter account, which he launched earlier this year to promote his stint as co-host of the 2011 Academy Awards, adding: "My thought was, 'This is my Twitter. I can do whatever I want'. But certain companies I work with contacted me about what I was saying."
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James Franco Says Social Media is Over
James Franco has bemoaned social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, claiming that the fad is "over".
The 127 Hours actor told Politico that he feels too much time is wasted on the sites and insisted that the trend will no longer be relevant in a few years' time.
"Social media is over. Still up there. Going down. You heard it here first," he said.
"If you want to write, make the time. We all have an hour or two a day that can be used for surfing Facebook or writing. No one is going to beg any new writer to write."
He also admitted to being frustrated by the responses received about his own Twitter account, which he launched earlier this year to promote his stint as co-host of the 2011 Academy Awards, adding: "My thought was, 'This is my Twitter. I can do whatever I want'. But certain companies I work with contacted me about what I was saying."
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What is he talking about?
yep ok
I thought he might've been one of those really pretentious but nice guys like jgl, who i don't think would ever do that perez hilton style shit.
Fuck it, I'm not gonna think too much on something James Franco says.
I dunno, all it takes is something huge like Facebook to make people forget all about something huge like MSN. So weird.
I still text alot though.
I thought about making one, but I fig'd it's too late to jump on that bamdwagon and I wanna spare myself the embarassment of having like 2 friends compaired to the 7000345346 everyone else has lol
I really don't see a huge difference in people who keep it reasonable. If you friend 2093741092374091327509137509164095873409
there was neopets first. then xanga. then myspace. facebook, twitter, youtube, etc... all followed.
i didn't really know a lot of people IRL that used LJ.
Social media is here to stay. Why would it go away? Nothing points to social media dying. Unless someone pulls the plug on the internet, it's going to exist. In fact, in a couple more years it won't even be called "social media" -- it'll just be classified as a way to communicate and keep in touch.
There's something like 350 million fb users and 175 million log in each day. It's not over. And I can't even fathom how many people sign up for Twitter every day
but of course, people who are less internet savvy will use the shit out of social media for at least a few years. and they are majority, so