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It's an oversimplification to see facebook as one product that can be replaced by another product. Facebook as it is now fulfills a lot of roles, some roles are
by acgourley 16y ago
It's an oversimplification to see facebook as one product that can be replaced by another product. Facebook as it is now fulfills a lot of roles, some roles are going to see competition, some roles like facebook connect are here to stay.
- Silhouette 16y agoI'm sure Facebook would like to be some sort of all-emcompassing platform, but its main value has always been the "self-updating address book", which is useful if and only if almost everyone you know is on there. All the other stuff, the messaging and photo sharing and toy apps and personal information pages and so on, can already be done elsewhere as well or better than Facebook does it, except for the automatic links to friends and the security/networking that come with that. If Facebook either loses a significant number of people in someone's friendship group to a rival system or loses the privacy/networking effects by making almost everything public, its value is going to drop very quickly for a lot of users and a vicious circle of people leaving is likely to follow.