Will facebook ever die?
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October 16th, 2009
Now that our grandparents and employers are on it, is there no stopping worldwide FB domination? Is there going to be a point where Facebook just shuts down and says “no more?” What would happen to all of our drunk pictures or funny links? How would the public react? Or will Facebook live on forever, becoming a crutch to society’s funtion?
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A self-fulfilling question. (It’s “function.”)
Social websites like FaceBook will end up causing us to blog more, and talk to real people less.
Only when John Connor stops it. Gacebook will turn into Skynet.
people who use facebook to spill there entire private life into the public deserve to have their identity stolen and their bank accounts emptied.
Sadly, every site will die someday.
Sure. At some point, our modern society, lacking plentiful cheap oil, will slowly regress to the point where non-muscle-powered energy will become too expensive and impractical to use, but most of us will be too busy growing our own food to worry much about Facebook at that point.
Either that, or it will end in a tiny “pop!” as the Sun goes red-giant and swallows up the steaming corpse of the Earth. One or t’other.
@laureth thank you for that happy thought.
If Facebook exists twenty years from now, it will have to have adapted in a big way. No technology stays the same for an indefinite amount of time without undergoing some kind of revision, especially not one so dynamic as a system for the sharing of information.
Do you honestly think web search will be done the same way google does it, twenty years from now?
Facebook will not last forever. As a company, it will grow in both revenue and employees, and it will take on a tremendous amount of inertia in the process. Sooner or later, another insightful pair of start-up founders (just like facebook was once) will think of a better way to do things, and Facebook, being the giant, lumbering bafoon it will have become, won’t be able to respond quickly enough. Either it will buy that small company, or that company will go on to an IPO and defeat Facebook in the battle for users.
It also may be the case that Facebook will sell itself out to Microsoft, in which case it will be immediately destroyed by the limitless incompetence of that company, and will cease to resemble the Facebook we now know and use.
However it happens, the current incarnation will not be the default format of social networking for very much longer into the future.
The second they start charging for it.
@frdelrosario True true. But can something like ever happen? Too late, nyet?
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