The Five Stages Of Early Adopter Behavior

I hadn't intended to make this sound negative, per se. But I think there is a pattern that some employ, where self-importance can come into play. We've seen the Silicon Valley darlings move from month to month... Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, for example, and I can find examples at each stage. If it did end up being too negative, my apologies. That's what I get for keeping it as brief as I did. There are certainly opportunities for services to continue in a mainstream use role for infinity, assuming they continue to meet needs.

Ever notice that famous hackers use old tools?<p>Most of them are older.<p>Older hackers get jaded by fads. That's how they develop their taste.<p>"Who needs that new dinglefanger? We've always used the wingdinggler!"<p>Studies show older primates don't adopt new technologies thoroughly embraced by the young.<p>This is the same thing.

I'm curious how true you guys think this is? As someone who does adopt early I found this post to be overly negative of early adopters. There's a subset of serial early adopters that this is true about, but it seems to me it's not generally true. Who knows I might be an elitist self-important jerk and just be in self denial!