Zuckerberg the next Steve Case?

[jhu]

Yeah, I think so too

 

[hal2kilo]

Yeah, I think so too

This cycle does seem to be familiar.

 

[RbSX]

I think facebook lost its value when it opened itself to everyone and their mother.

At least when it was isolated to university and college students it was mildly intelligent.

 

[blinblue]

The time really does seem ripe for another social network site to start making chipping away at facebook. What I think would do really well is a site designed for college students (like Facebook used to be) so that kids can post pictures of their drunken orgies without their grandmother seeing it (and yes I know you can change permissions so that certain people can't see albums and whatnot, but at a certain point it just becomes so much of a hassle keeping things separate)

I think a lot of people dislike the privacy implications, either because they personally don't like it, or they heard about it in the news and that its "bad"

And maybe its just me and my group of facebook friends, but there seems to be far less original content going up lately (pictures, events, status updates, etc) and its being replaced by worthless content generated by various games (most of which I've disabled from being shown on my newsfeed). Could also do with the fact that I'm not in college anymore.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

I think facebook lost its value when it opened itself to everyone and their mother.

At least when it was isolated to university and college students it was mildly intelligent.

Yep. Facebook was interesting when it wasn't polluted with everyone who wanted to post about how breast cancer sucks or how the cookie they just ate tasted. It's become Myspace with a slightly less (but not for long) annoying interface.

Myspace will always have niche though, in that it was originally conceived as a way for musicians to share their music, which is what it is mostly used for now. Facebook doesn't really have a niche. Everything that it does can be done by something else (email, twitter, craigslist, phones).

 

[ThePresence]

Good article, and probably true.
Very ironic to see this after the article:

 

[darkewaffle]

I think it will inevitably fall, I'm curious to see how long it can keep it's 'run' going though.

 

[lothar]

News Corp.'s MySpace Cuts Staff by 47% to Pare Losses
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...f-by-47-amid-reports-website-may-be-sold.html

 

[bfdd]

in 10 years facebook will be a thing of the past. technology is going to push it obsolete. we'll all just be our own entities with some weird crap like nick.lol@younoob and that's how you will visit their "page" or call them or anything.

 

[Throckmorton]

in 10 years facebook will be a thing of the past. technology is going to push it obsolete. we'll all just be our own entities with some weird crap like nick.lol@younoob and that's how you will visit their "page" or call them or anything.

Sounds like you're describing what Facebook will be in 10 years, not what will replace it.

 

[Throckmorton]

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Volpagirl I think Douglas has missed one, fairly fundamental point. His assumption is that facebook as a "venue" will be something people grow tired of. However facebook as a service or communication tool has fundamentally and, I suspect, irreversibly changed the way people communicate. It is, in many respect... more
I think Douglas has missed one, fairly fundamental point. His assumption is that facebook as a "venue" will be something people grow tired of. However facebook as a service or communication tool has fundamentally and, I suspect, irreversibly changed the way people communicate. It is, in many respects, the new telephone. And as with any new inventions, there's bound to be a few crap versions before we get to one that works best. Which is why facebook is streets ahead of it's competitors, and linked in ( which I gave up on about 5 years ago) is miles behind. I'm not a betting man, but i'd be willing to put good money on fb being able to commercialise successfully and move beyond "venue" to "service".

Facebook is a fundamental shift in how people (and most importantly, advertisers) communicate. Both have massive commercial value. The other social networks are so niche and so focussed on preventing free communication that they have set their own a Achilles heel. Linked In, in particular, is deeply flawed as a communication tool. Facebook makes target mass communication easy in the same way that google made Internet search easy.... That's ultimately why they'll win in the end.

 

[ProfJohn]

Steve Case is worth $1.1 billion....
Zuckerberg is worth $4 billion..


Where can I get in line to be the next Zuckerberg?

 

[manimal]

facebook will innovate or die.

 

[TehMac]

Ohnoes, teh corporations. Of course, we need big brother/papa bear/sis to protect us all from teh evil things we don't fully understand.