Where can you go to find a purple tea kettle? A purple couch? Purple camouflage underwear? You go to The Purple Store! Adam Sheridan opened The Purple Store in Seattle (and online) because people who prefer purple had trouble finding purple things and were excited when they did.
"People often expect us to have wacky, crazy, strange things," Sheridan said. "What we found is what our customers want is ordinary everyday item, but in purple. One of our rules is, if we don't love it, we don't carry it."
And business is good. The store survived the recession and Sheridan said with more fans of people discovering The Purple Store everyday, they have plans to add products and locations.
Sheridan himself isn't necessarily a huge purple fan, but he does wear the regal color quite often and he appreciates it. Mostly, he loves that his store makes people happy.
The Purple Store supplied many of the items Marie Schrader used in the TV series Breaking Bad. She was really into purple. -via Time
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The passing popularity of Friendster and MySpace as social networking sites may have presented a pattern to us, but Facebook is way more of a behemoth than they ever were. It's like saying that Google is a fad of a search engine because AltaVista and Ask Jeeves are now passé. If Facebook DOES lose its popularity, it won't be to Tumblr. Tumblr isn't really in the same website category as Facebook; it's a blogging service, so it focuses more on sharing content than connecting with others.
you can't say no to facebook because there are no other options and everybody is already on it
The piece isn't about the overall popularity of Facebook, it is about how younger people are starting to turn elsewhere for their networking needs.
"With more than 900 million users, Facebook remains the most popular online hangout. But some young people are turning their attention elsewhere.
Fickle young consumers can make and break social networks, as evidenced by pioneers such as Myspace and Friendster whose appeal faded as tastes changed.
In fact, 8 of 10 teens who are online use social networking sites — and more than 93% of those users have a Facebook account, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Millions more kids under the legal Facebook age of 13 fib about their age to use the service.
Still, older people are the ones driving much of Facebook's growth. Users age 50 to 64 made up nearly a quarter of Facebook's audience in March, according to research firm Nielsen."
it's not a lambo but it will get you to the post office.
tumblr, twitter, and other sites are more ego driven in their social networking capacity.
(also buzzbo has made a good point with his non-anecdotal evidence)
And so I became a FaceBook user.
Years later 'Join this game' and 'Hey, I took my dog for a walk!' or some political rant seem abound on my page. I'm down to checking it once a quarter for no apparent reason.
Off to shoo kids off my lawn and yell at a cloud!
http://www.google.com/trends/?q=facebook,+twitter,+tumblr&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0