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Well written, unalone. Any thoughts on what the next iteration will be? (beyond "lifestreaming")? I understand I'm asking for a purely hypothetical prediction.

• unalone 18y ago
  The only thing I can think of is they'll move towards mobile: taking advantage of GPS and making a more localized service for finding people. Facebook's one of the few sites I've never predicted correctly. That last change was unexpected - I didn't expect they'd decentralize the profile pages that much. A part of me still hopes they'll tie Pages into the user's profile page more - "Books" taking you to communities created for each specific book - and I think that would be a good method for them to bring more content holders into the fray, but for whatever reason, I doubt that will actually happen. The process tends to be that a site will unify its design, then break it up more. Facebook is unifying everything right now. The next step would be to find new niches to break the site down into, so they can bring a new fresh feel to the site. Considering they've all-but-abandoned the "base it on colleges" design, and now they're moving towards more commercial things, I'm wondering if they'll begin shifting it back again with a new emphasis on networks. I wouldn't bet either way, though: my track record is pretty bad for Facebook guesses.