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Sure, people like all the things the author listed, but the author doesn't say why /Facebook/ isn't a fad. Didn't Friendster or Myspace have huge amounts of pe
by afhof 14y ago
Sure, people like all the things the author listed, but the author doesn't say why /Facebook/ isn't a fad. Didn't Friendster or Myspace have huge amounts of personal data before they went under? The author mentions it briefly with Myspace, but he doesn't really elaborate. How much longer will it be until another even more innovative and capable company comes along and eats Facebook's lunch?
- cabalamat 14y agoI agree. While social networking isn't a fad, facebook may well be.
- katzgrau 14y agoI'm saying it's not a fas because of how tightly integrated they are in both the internet and people's minds. MySpace had a bunch of local bands with ugly profile pages. It was basically the next Xanga, LiveJournal, DeadJournal, etc. It never moved on. Facebook exposed APIs that developers could use to build on top of them. Facebook is a major part of the foundation of the social internet. And as long as Mark's on the job, I'm betting it'll stay that way.
- mnicole 14y agoMySpace was just as integrated into people's lives at the time. LiveJournal is still a behemoth and houses an innumerable amount of thriving communities. I would go so far to say that with Zuckerberg at the helm, people will continue to be wary of the future of FB and their data. All it is going to take for someone to surpass FB is the ability to pull the user's info in from it, make it a cleaner experience they have more control over and find a better way of advertising to or otherwise monetizing from users. Look at what hype alone did for Diaspora. People are grasping to get away from Facebook, they just need somewhere else to go.