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Facebook isn't going away soon, but do please look into being the next timesink for the web. It definitely feels ripe for a new timesink. People are getting bor
by 27182818284 14y ago
Facebook isn't going away soon, but do please look into being the next timesink for the web. It definitely feels ripe for a new timesink. People are getting bored with Facebook, no doubt, but they still use it daily. Surely it will be disrupted in the future, (few of the original NYSE companies exist) but not anytime soon. When Mark said there were other social networks, PG's laughing response of "Not really" was correct. If half of Facebook's daily users quit it'd only set them back a year or two. On top of that, Facebook is in the great position of already having the chicken-egg problem solved, so if they did want to move into, say, PayPal's area, they could do it. (Imagine if grandpa can send his grand daughter money for school and see her picture while he does it. Way more comfortable than PayPal. Not to mention they could probably do better fraud detection, etc)
Again for emphasis, Facebook isn't going away. People share more than ever and use it daily, but they are getting bored with it so a new opening for another timesink has been created. For example, all of the people I know that use Pinterest also use Facebook. Pinterest is a newer timesink, but it doesn't replace Facebook.