> "Dying" is an appropriate analogy because if the decline gets far enough, it may as well not exist to those people who are affected. For how many people does

> "Dying" is an appropriate analogy because if the decline gets far enough, it may as well not exist to those people who are affected. For how many people does the web actually cease to exist? Many people have seen social media as a dim light for many years now, yet most of the companies involved still exist. They may not be growing any more (or they may not be growing at the same pace), but that had to happen anyway. The world's population is finite. Only a certain percentage will be interested in a particular service. New competitors emerge. These companies had to plateau eventually and will likely decline eventually (as many have before them). No individual company, or even a generation of companies, can be regarded as representative of an overall trend.