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Ask HN: Where do you expect Facebook to be in 5 years?
Make predictions like this one (from 4 years ago): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12991
- JoeCortopassi 15y agoCloser to being Myspace than Google
- justatdotin 15y agogone.
- MenaMena123 15y agoLike anything it has its high time and people just get tired of things and move to the next best thing.
- vicngtor 15y agoI dun think it will go. It will be an essential part of our lives (just like google now), but it definitely won't receive so much hype. When Facebook IPOs in the near future, lots of talent will leave to pursue other lucrative opportunities.
- daimyoyo 15y agoThe Winklevii will be suing Facebook from the ICC in The Hague.
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- huuleon 15y agoThey will reach maturity
- nametoremember 15y agoI'd say the mobile Facebook app or site will be improved a lot. Messages will be used instead of texting in a lot of cases. It will have video chat integrated. Search will be better too.
- ppjim 15y agoA bank company
- tony_landis 15y agoI think they will still have a solid userbase, but will be far less hyped.
- veb 15y agoShowering us with augmented reality contact-lenses so we'll be able to see geolocation-facebook. I.e. look out the window of my office and see conversations between people and join in if I must. Wait. Facebook isn't that awesome. :)
- abbasmehdi 15y agoThat’s totally awesome! But not sure if I want to be on the receiving end of that.
- gallerytungsten 15y agoSomewhere in-between where AOL and MySpace are today.
- jhowell 15y agoFacebook will be around, but where will the data be?
- wmboy 15y agoAs Google has become THE search engine, Facebook will be THE social networking site (which it already is). I don't think it will get bigger than being a social networking tool, and on the other end of the scale I highly doubt it will end up like MySpace...
- abbasmehdi 15y agoIt will merge with the gov't - your ID/DL and FB will be closely related, it will enter many verticals (e.g. compete with LinkedIn in the professional networking space), it will seek to impact more deeply by blurring the line between virtual and real life, it will start selling discount stuff (like Groupon) to kids. It will basically become the MS of web 2.0 But then again, I have no idea! :)
- beatpanda 15y agoDead, hopefully.
- jeffool 15y agoHaving finally incorporated email for all users, in five years time, they'll finally be bothering with voice chat. And all its users will think Facebook invented the idea.