[pg]

I don't know about their traffic but I would not be surprised if it had decined. Growth comes from paying attention to growth. But getting acquired, like raising money, is an immense drain on attention. In both cases it can put a startup in a dangerous pinch.

[mingyeow]

PG - are you serious? you seriously think that their decline in growth comes from anything other than facebook users seeing through their scam and facebook itself shutting off their spam channels?

You think that there is any chance in hell that they can maintain that kind of growth. Come on

[cmcewen]

I can't speak from experience about getting acquired, but I definitely see how it could be an attention drain. I was more speaking to the stickiness of the product. Socialcam grew really quickly, but shrunk just as fast because people didn't stay around. That to me seems very hard to monetize.

[janj]

Would it be inappropriate for pg to give an honest assessment of Socialcam considering his involvement with the company and his history with the founders? I would love to read a sincere evaluation from pg's perspective on Socialcam's method of growth and the real value to it's acquirer.

[RealGeek]

Thanks to the attention drain, we get a few weeks of relief from their spam.