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The Facebook Era Is Over
- axaxs 8y agoIronic seeing this on IMO one of the worst and falling-out-of-fashion 'social networking' sites around. It would be like Digg hosting a page about the sure decline of Reddit.
- type0 8y agoFacebook is not going anywhere anytime soon, now that when even every grandma is using it. Kids don't use facebook now but they'll eventually will when the only point of contact for so many is to message on fb.
- sfilargi 8y agoFacebook is already kind of gone. What used to be a place to hang out, share photos of last night's party, gossip, brag, etc.. is now a mind numbing scrolling experience. It's becoming increasingly difficult to tell it apart from reddit.
- arvinsim 8y agoIf anything, FB Messenger will probably will still remain since a lot of people outside the US are still using it.
- kalleboo 8y agoHasn't WhatsApp largely taken over that role? (which is why Facebook acquired them)
- ritz_labringue 8y agoDefinetely not in France. FB Messenger is the primary way of messaging people here
- setr 8y agoThey’ll have an account, but probably not actively use it for posting content. Assuming kids are the primary driver of content on fb, then with their absence should come a drop in value from checking into fb daily (this is occurring to me, today. I’m not sure if its due to more aggressive advertising or loss of usage, but my feed is like 50% ads atm, which I’m pretty sure wasn’t true five years ago). If theres a lack of people posting content on fb, then you’ll naturally feel no incentive to post (the social media feedback loop, in reverse). Eventually, the feed becomes useless, and all thats left is the messenger app driving value to fb And of course, in social media, the adults follow the kids. If the kids are running around on a different app, then those who wish to stay in contact will slowly move to it as well. And those who wish to stay in contact with both and so on. Social media is all about feedback loops, and the young are the primary fuel for it. FB will struggle to survive in its current form if it doesn’t have the next generation. And social media doesn’t have the kind of lock-in to claim a current population gaurantees a future population. You can have yik-yak and fb simultaneously. If half your audience is on yik-yak and the other on fb (eg friends on yak, family still on fb), you might cross-post. But dangerously for fb, you’re not going to cross-post to fb if yik-yak is your primary, and your audience has yik-yak as their primary too.
- rmason 8y agoThis is shameless self promotion for the author's company.
- rkho 8y agoLinkedIn is such a cesspool of self-promotion and noise. No surprises here.
- AzzieElbab 8y agoShe is not from LinkedIn :)
- kevinventullo 8y agoI think they were referring to Gina Bianchini is the founder and CEO of Mighty Networks, a software-as-a-service company for brands and businesses that bring people together via classes, events, content, and community, all in one place. Before Mighty Networks, she founded Ning, a pioneering social platform for creating your own social networks, in 2004.
- SllX 8y ago> Gina Bianchini > Ning This takes me back 10 years when I would read pmarca's blog religiously.
- AzzieElbab 8y agoThe post I replied to referenced ln
- rkho 8y agoOh no, I'm not referring to the employees there -- moreso the quality of content and how it's literally one large circlejerk of a corporate echo chamber with at least ten nines of noise
- strikelaserclaw 8y agois the hating fb circle jerk coming to an end soon? I'm kinda sick of reading articles like this.
- AzzieElbab 8y agoSame. Never used FB actually
- nunez 8y agoit’s almost like fb knows that there’s an expiration date on classic social networks and is aggressively acquiring anything that looks like the future of social
- Jyaif 8y agoI wouldn't count out the company just yet: Zuck invested really smartly in Whatsapp, VR, and Instagram. Maybe they should rename the company to de-emphasize the relation to a product that will not be their golden goose for ever.
- SllX 8y agoMaybe they could take two Greek letters and form a word out of it and do some kind of reverse acquisition, breaking apart the original company into just a unit of the new company, then Zuck can be the CEO of the new company and pass CEO of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Occulus, et cetera down to some favored lieutenants. Would definitely be a complicated legal maneuver, but hey, then we would have Muzeta.
- arthurcolle 8y agoAΩ would be a neat new dystopian megacorp to rule the world. ABCs are already taken. Bit of a name clash with the villains of the last Planet of the Apes though!
- EADGBE 8y agoThe future of Facebook was in Groups. A while back, they removed the group-only apps, probably because too many people were using it to get the real use they had out of Facebook, and advertising wasn't working in such silo'd interest groups (Though there's no reason it couldn't). When they did that I saw that Facebook was becoming less and less useful to me. When I looked around at my close friends and family; almost all were in a few really active, really niche groups and getting most of their Facebook experience there. But Facebook has no interest in being the next-generation phpBB. I'm assuming this is the beginning of the end; no adapt-or-die mentality since they can just acqui-hire now.
- vectorEQ 8y agoso funny seeing one social media site saying that another is out of fashion... i wonder what their game is :D ....