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3) I think facebook is here to stay. Whether it lasts through time to be google status is yet to be seen, but I really think it could be. It's interesting hea

3) I think facebook is here to stay. Whether it lasts through time to be google status is yet to be seen, but I really think it could be. It's interesting hearing paul's predictions as he saw google become GOOGLE.

jacquesm 17y ago
Google is a business essential service. If facebook would go down it would be an inconvenience but the world will continue. Google has literally become mission critical for millions of people doing their everyday job from doctors to scientists. Someone should make a little program to track how many google searches you do on a daily basis, that would be a really interesting bit of knowledge.
- cookingrobot 17y ago
  Search is essential. If Google went down, people would start using Bing or Yahoo, and would be fine.
  - jacquesm 17y ago
    Yes, you are absolutely correct. I just posted a poll and I already clued in to that before I finished writing it.
- jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
  I could be very very wrong on this, but ill throw it out there. Facebook going away would be much worse. We can just replace Google with Bing and the search results would be good enough. The advertising would shift there too. Our social graph on facebook? That's a whole lot harder to re-create. The other data we have there (interactions, photos,etc.) could not be recreated easily either. Just my two cents
  - jacquesm 17y ago
    Your social graph is replicated in your address book, if you've used facebook to 'reconnect' with people then I'd guess if it was worth enough to you then you'd stay connected with them even if facebook went bust. If you have photos on facebook but not backed up elsewhere (on your own storage devices) then you're setting yourself up for a fall. Interactions with people can happen in many ways outside of facebook, after all it's not like they invented inter-human communications. But sifting through the web without a search engine would be a bit tedious. On the other hand it would stop the spammers cold and people would have to spend some more time linking to places. Who knows what a web without search engines would have looked like, possibly better than the one we have today. But we can hardly go back there.
    - dkokelley 17y ago
      If you have photos on facebook but not backed up elsewhere (on your own storage devices) then you're setting yourself up for a fall. A couple of things: There are many photos of myself (and friends) that I enjoy and would love to have around, but weren't taken by myself. At parties, friends take pictures and upload them. I can enjoy them through Facebook, but I wouldn't think to download a backup 'just in case'. It's just too much of a hassle. With my own photos, I have a local copy by default, since the device I took the picture with has the original image. Even if I had a local copy of all my pictures (including pictures by friends), Facebook's tagging feature is pretty neat, and I don't exactly have that functionality with a local copy. I use Picasa and I love the facial recognition features, but it took a lot of training, and a lot of personal intervention to get my library recognized. Facebook has the power of the masses working to tag me and all of my friends. I think that Facebook will remain relevant as long as there is no suitable substitute for those features.
      - jacquesm 17y ago
        I sense an opportunity here, a small web app that will backup all the facebook photos that have you tagged.
        gaius 17y ago
ams6110 17y ago
A lot of people thought the same about MySpace a few years ago. Disclaimer: I don't use MySpace, Facebook, or Twitter and don't foresee ever doing so.
brk 17y ago
I remember when people said that about Compuserve and AOL and GeoCities and a dozen other forgotten sites.
lsc 17y ago
because the people working there are smart and ambitious? come now, it takes a lot more than that to make a google.

jacquesm 17y ago

Google is a business essential service. If facebook would go down it would be an inconvenience but the world will continue. Google has literally become mission critical for millions of people doing their everyday job from doctors to scientists. Someone should make a little program to track how many google searches you do on a daily basis, that would be a really interesting bit of knowledge.

cookingrobot 17y ago
Search is essential. If Google went down, people would start using Bing or Yahoo, and would be fine.
- jacquesm 17y ago
  Yes, you are absolutely correct. I just posted a poll and I already clued in to that before I finished writing it.
jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
I could be very very wrong on this, but ill throw it out there. Facebook going away would be much worse. We can just replace Google with Bing and the search results would be good enough. The advertising would shift there too. Our social graph on facebook? That's a whole lot harder to re-create. The other data we have there (interactions, photos,etc.) could not be recreated easily either. Just my two cents
- jacquesm 17y ago
  Your social graph is replicated in your address book, if you've used facebook to 'reconnect' with people then I'd guess if it was worth enough to you then you'd stay connected with them even if facebook went bust. If you have photos on facebook but not backed up elsewhere (on your own storage devices) then you're setting yourself up for a fall. Interactions with people can happen in many ways outside of facebook, after all it's not like they invented inter-human communications. But sifting through the web without a search engine would be a bit tedious. On the other hand it would stop the spammers cold and people would have to spend some more time linking to places. Who knows what a web without search engines would have looked like, possibly better than the one we have today. But we can hardly go back there.
  - dkokelley 17y ago
    If you have photos on facebook but not backed up elsewhere (on your own storage devices) then you're setting yourself up for a fall. A couple of things: There are many photos of myself (and friends) that I enjoy and would love to have around, but weren't taken by myself. At parties, friends take pictures and upload them. I can enjoy them through Facebook, but I wouldn't think to download a backup 'just in case'. It's just too much of a hassle. With my own photos, I have a local copy by default, since the device I took the picture with has the original image. Even if I had a local copy of all my pictures (including pictures by friends), Facebook's tagging feature is pretty neat, and I don't exactly have that functionality with a local copy. I use Picasa and I love the facial recognition features, but it took a lot of training, and a lot of personal intervention to get my library recognized. Facebook has the power of the masses working to tag me and all of my friends. I think that Facebook will remain relevant as long as there is no suitable substitute for those features.
    - jacquesm 17y ago
      I sense an opportunity here, a small web app that will backup all the facebook photos that have you tagged.
      - gaius 17y ago

ams6110 17y ago

A lot of people thought the same about MySpace a few years ago. Disclaimer: I don't use MySpace, Facebook, or Twitter and don't foresee ever doing so.

brk 17y ago

I remember when people said that about Compuserve and AOL and GeoCities and a dozen other forgotten sites.

lsc 17y ago

because the people working there are smart and ambitious? come now, it takes a lot more than that to make a google.