Charles on… anything that comes along

So not only are there gabillions of houses in the US that will imminently be turned into dust or repossessed by Chinese sovereign funds, but Facebook is over too.

So concludes Glenda, and although you might quibble with the robustness of her experiment, I think it’s one of those cases where the anecdotal reflects the general.

If 2007 was the year of Facebook, it was also the year of Gene Hunt with the second series of Life on Mars. The sequel - Ashes to Ashes which began last Thursday was much anticipated.
Because of a feature I was helping out on at the Telegraph I got hold of a copy of A2A a day earlier. And in irritating fashion I immediately updated my Facebook status to say I was watching A2A right then. Obviously partly to annoy people; but also to see how many people were still checking Facebook.
The results were as follows: one person emailed me mid Thurs to see if his friend who was playing the clown had a big part.
Conclusion:
1. Facebook is over (if so, bad news for the aid agencies who think social networking could be the answer)
2. Gene Hunt is over (bad news for the BBC who have pinned so much on A2A)
3. I have no friends anymore (bad news for me)
I think it may be a combination of all three.

You thought all that was bad? It gets worse. Glenda’s giving up buying clothes for Lent. Oh, woe, the high street…

(So that means Microsoft has bought into one thing on the way out. Should we read the same into its bid for Yahoo - which now looks like turning hostile in the most literal manner, with proxy bids, board replacements and so on?)

These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
• You work too hard, it breaks - Chantelle and Preston, the unsurnamed couple. Are they on Facebook then? (27 June 2007; score: 57.45%)
• Everything you needed to know about Facebook in one photo (5 October 2007; score: 55.63%)
• The last word on Facebook, from Joy Of Tech (12 January 2008; score: 46.14%)