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Title: Facebook is dying
Post by: SomeKittens on January 19, 2011, 12:41:30 PM: http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/01/07/rushkoff.facebook.myspace/ (http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/01/07/rushkoff.facebook.myspace/)

tl;dr With the new deal, Facebook is showing the signs of a large dotcom about to start the downhill slide to obscurity.
Title: Re: Facebook is dying
Post by: lp670sv on January 19, 2011, 12:54:42 PM: Let's make the next social network we'll be rich!
Title: Re: Facebook is dying
Post by: Warrior_Monk on January 19, 2011, 01:29:37 PM: So what? I'm going to keep using Facebook as normal.
Title: Re: Facebook is dying
Post by: Alex_Olijar on January 19, 2011, 01:30:22 PM: Kids, remember, trends are just trends, not truth.
Title: Re: Facebook is dying
Post by: browarod on January 19, 2011, 01:59:03 PM: To be quite honest, I don't think I really care, lol. I was into Facebook for awhile, but I quit cold turkey (except for the occasional check-up on people I really care about) almost a year ago, and I haven't needed, or wanted, to go back.

Social Networking is just the latest fad. It, like tie-dye shirts and bell-bottom jeans, will fade away eventually (possibly to return when society cycles this way again years/decades from now (if we're still around then, lol)).
Title: Re: Facebook is dying
Post by: Lozo777 on January 19, 2011, 02:27:32 PM: Quote from: Ring Wraith on January 19, 2011, 01:29:37 PM
So what? I'm going to keep using Facebook as normal.

Tru dat home boy.
Title: Re: Facebook is dying
Post by: SomeKittens on January 19, 2011, 02:29:50 PM: Quote from: Ring Wraith on January 19, 2011, 01:29:37 PM
So what? I'm going to keep using Facebook as normal.
Thus said many people who used MySpace.
Title: Re: Facebook is dying
Post by: browarod on January 19, 2011, 02:32:07 PM: Quote from: SomeKittens on January 19, 2011, 02:29:50 PM
Quote from: Ring Wraith on January 19, 2011, 01:29:37 PM
So what? I'm going to keep using Facebook as normal.
Thus said many people who used MySpace.
They're probably the ones that are still using it. ;)
Title: Re: Facebook is dying
Post by: Warrior_Monk on January 19, 2011, 02:34:20 PM: Quote from: browarod on January 19, 2011, 02:32:07 PM
Quote from: SomeKittens on January 19, 2011, 02:29:50 PM
Quote from: Ring Wraith on January 19, 2011, 01:29:37 PM
So what? I'm going to keep using Facebook as normal.
Thus said many people who used MySpace.
They're probably the ones that are still using it. ;)
I still use MySpace. I don't have a MySpace account, but I have We Came as Romans MySpace Music bookmarked. It still has it's uses.
Title: Re: Facebook is dying
Post by: Alex_Olijar on January 19, 2011, 02:35:47 PM: Myspace is completely different than Facebook.

1. Myspace had its brand attached to several high profile kidnapping cases in a negative light.
2. Myspace focuses on the user's personal expirience with the site itself, rather than on the social expirience of the site (as in Facebook "likes", ease of use of the chat client, etc)
3. Facebook is stronger than Myspace ever was financially and in the realm of opinion.
4. Facebook is being invested in by a non-media source (Goldman Sachs). You think an independent company not currently involved in a major media company is investing in Facebook because it is going to go away soon?
Title: Re: Facebook is dying
Post by: SomeKittens on January 19, 2011, 02:53:51 PM: Quote from: Alex_Olijar on January 19, 2011, 02:35:47 PM
Myspace is completely different than Facebook.

1. Myspace had its brand attached to several high profile kidnapping cases in a negative light.
2. Myspace focuses on the user's personal expirience with the site itself, rather than on the social expirience of the site (as in Facebook "likes", ease of use of the chat client, etc)
3. Facebook is stronger than Myspace ever was financially and in the realm of opinion.
4. Facebook is being invested in by a non-media source (Goldman Sachs). You think an independent company not currently involved in a major media company is investing in Facebook because it is going to go away soon?
Did you read the article?
Title: Re: Facebook is dying
Post by: STAMP on January 19, 2011, 04:31:10 PM: TGOTO*

(* tremendous grasp of the obvious)

I will give the writer the benefit of doubt of recognizing the historical similarities and deducing the obvious causes. The root cause is simple and easy to see, especially for this community. Tell me what it is.
Title: Re: Facebook is dying
Post by: The Schaef on January 20, 2011, 12:00:36 PM: I was going to say short attention span, but I forgot the reason why and just went to play a video game instead.