> What, if anything, will come after Facebook for human connection? "If anything"? I can pretty much guarantee you that in 50 years (or 100, to stay on the saf

> What, if anything, will come after Facebook for human connection? "If anything"? I can pretty much guarantee you that in 50 years (or 100, to stay on the safe side), nobody will be using Facebook anymore. The question is not "if" but "what". Speculating on coming tech is risky, but my prediction is a two-way trend: graphic and text-based communication. Email is one of the oldest computer communication tools around (and basically a continuation of the millenia-old practice of writing letters) and doesn't seem to be going anywhere. Text-based communication is ideal for formulating complex ideas and offers low storage/delivery costs. I don't know whether we'll still be calling it email, but I'm pretty sure we'll still be writing some sort of letters in 2100. On the other hand, private conversation is a lot more enjoyable when it is face-to-face, giving the participants the opportunity to latch on to non-linguistic cues such as voice inflection or facial expressions. Thus I would imagine that some sort of telepresence communication platform is going to be pretty important in 2100 (akin to Skype et al. today, though perhaps with elements of virtual reality). tl;dr Facebook as a company isn't going to stick around for ever, but letters and visual chatting are here to stay.