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I think Facebook will be hard to replace until something else has enough mass. The problem is the FB is continuing to gain mass. FB has enough gravity to pull

• kamechan 16y ago
  right, i mean 500 million users all making a constant investment in their profiles, connections, photo uploads, etc. the seemingly endless chain of privacy concerns (and i've learned recently through first hand experience there are many) aren't dissuading users from spending much of their precious time on the site...and since all your friends are on it, or connections you want to keep, how are you ever supposed to leave? and when you try, you get what amounts to a guilt trip that your most bestest friends will miss your increasingly valueless contributions to the site. of course, that's because all your pithiness is going into 140 characters or less to what amounts to almost total strangers. facebook, where did your allure go? after the last round of privacy banter, i've kept my facebook material almost completely personality free.
• akharris 16y ago
  People said the same thing about myspace a few years back. It was king of the social internets. Clearly, it wasn't quite as big as Facebook, but it's all a question of giving users what they want. If someone can identify the discontents and innovate on them faster than Facebook can, then we'll see a new, legitimate, challenger. Of course, in order to do that, you have to think that FB won't innovate quickly enough to sit on whoever tries. It's the classic startup v. big company challenge.