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I doubt it. Facebook may have issues but they aren't going to disappear anytime soon.
by encryptluks2 4y ago
I doubt it. Facebook may have issues but they aren't going to disappear anytime soon.
- pjmlp 4y agoSome of us are old enough to have been through Hi5 and MySpace....
- blackoil 4y agoAnd some are old enough to have read millions of predictions of death of IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Google and FB.
- FullyFunctional 4y agoand Sun, Netscape, etc. Just because some of these predictions didn't happen doesn't mean a lot of them did. Sun Microsystems appeared solid. Apple _did_ almost die. IBM is only a shadow of their former self (IMO, the original IBM _did_ die). FB and Google are still young in comparison. I have no stake in either, but IMO Google is more likely to survive than FB. FWIW, both have high quality staff that will bail if the growth stalls.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoThe old IBM really just sold itself off in little pieces. What's left is a few pieces that have no idea what they want to be but they just keep doing what they do because the brand name assures them customers.
- pjmlp 4y agoSome of which we were actually right about. By the way, Apple only survived thanks to Microsoft money and being reverse acquired by NeXT.
- thfuran 4y agoMyspace was never a ~trillion dollar company.
- kortilla 4y agoTrue, but despite MySpace once being dominant, it’s peak scale was a tiny fraction of where Facebook is now. MySpace was popular for some specific English speaking age groups mainly. Facebook is basically everywhere but China. My parents who still refer to Google Maps as Mapquest are even on Facebook. It will take a pretty big screwup to flush out those types of users (not early adopters).
- NonNefarious 4y agoYour parents are the only ones left on Facebook. As long as that demographic can sustain it, so be it. But nobody under 70 is going to be on there much longer. Actually, red-state cousin-humpers might still be on there a while longer. They have no place else to go, after Trump's predictably shambolic attempt at creating a competitor.
- paganel 4y agoFB is still a thing among the late-30s - early 40s and older than that in some countries in Europe (I'm from Romania myself, in my early 40s), but younger than that there's almost no-one active on FB. Anyway, good riddance, it pained me to see how most of the national politics was being carried out at a certain moment in time (~2014 - ~2019) almost exclusively on FB, a private network. That wasn't right.
- NonNefarious 4y agoAmen.
- laszlojamf 4y agoIt still surprises me how perpetuating this stereotype of rural poor conservatives is A-OK.
- NonNefarious 4y ago"This" stereotype?
- mst 4y agoYeah. I'm "remembers netgoth.org.uk IRC regularly having to add 'yes, livejournal is down' to /topic" years old.