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The biggest wild card from my perspective is that the premise and promise of facebook is that it remains cool. People didn't use google to be cool. Twitter, to
by siavosh 14y ago
The biggest wild card from my perspective is that the premise and promise of facebook is that it remains cool. People didn't use google to be cool. Twitter, to my friends and I, was actually pretty uncool initially and now has become my primary news feed. If today's tweens and teeny boppers don't jump ship in the next five years, then facebook may have really become the infrastructure company it claims/desires to be, until then, the doubts will linger.
- joering2 14y agoI think that buying Instagram was a clear signal that if something cool-er comes around the corner, we will buy it. that is, unless they try to buy from another Zuckerberg.
- greenyoda 14y agoThe half-life of "cool" is very short. Facebook started out as a hangout for college kids, and then it became the cool alternative to MySpace. But now, when parents and grandparents are using Facebook, is it really cool anymore? If boring corporations like enterprise software companies have a presence on Facebook, that would also seem to detract from its coolness. At some point, when everyone is on Facebook, not being on Facebook will become the cool new thing.