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bdub77 [TotalFark]
2012-01-12 01:08:45 AM
I was really hoping MySpace had gotten hit by a giant meteor.
 
dookdookdook
2012-01-12 02:34:18 AM
What's a "facebook" and why would I want one?
 
Snarcoleptic_Hoosier [TotalFark]
2012-01-12 02:38:04 AM
It's not the death (as in "close everything down and strip the place of copper wire") that everyone is predicting; it's the market correction of the social media bubble. Too much crap, not enough reason to continue after a certain point.

Facebook won't be gone in 5 years, it'll be a LOT more desolate as the herd moves on to the newest shiny thing.
 
Aamelrons
2012-01-12 03:02:32 AM
I think that unless facebook goes off the deep end in terms of business suicide, they will survive.

Simply because mass migration is hard, many people don't want to re-upload every photo, convince their friends to join, don't want to have to manage another social network, ect.

The only way this will be killed is if a website comes out that automates the transfer, and allows you to contact and do facebook stuff through their client. Good luck getting Facebook to allow that.
 
drjekel_mrhyde
2012-01-12 03:17:21 AM
Only thing that can take down Facebook is a start-up and not some social network owned by a mega company like Google+
 
Summer Glau's Love Slave
2012-01-12 03:20:00 AM
I sorta thought the article was gonna be about SOPA. I've read some news stories that say the internet is as we know it is doomed.

/Hope they're wrong.
//I'd have to read books and stuff.
///In other news... MySpace is not dead - yet.
 
moothemagiccow
2012-01-12 03:40:00 AM
drjekel_mrhyde: Only thing that can take down Facebook is a start-up and not some social network owned by a mega company like Google+

hey now, google is doing a damn fine job of taking themselves down.
 
doglover [TotalFark]
2012-01-12 03:47:53 AM
It's become a familiar ritual: Joining a new network.

Um, not for anyone with a real life to lead. I joined facebook. That's about it. Since then, I've stuck with it. If it were to disappear tomorrow, I'd read a book or come to fark more often.
 
frozenhotchocolate
2012-01-12 03:53:15 AM
Been meaning to delete my fb account. My inbox is full of people wondering how I'm doing and where ive been. Well, I've obviously not been on facebook.
 
r1niceboy
2012-01-12 04:02:25 AM
I deleted my FB account. Haven't really missed it, although lots of people I know think I must have rage quit prior to a suicide attempt. I assured them the rage quit part is untrue.
 
Cyno01 [TotalFark]
2012-01-12 04:03:28 AM
You know what will kill Facebook? Not some external threat, no, Facebook will implode and destroy itself.

Someone will get the bright idea to implement "Who's been looking at your profile", or "these people have looked at this photo in the past week" feature. Facebook HAS that data.

But Facebook becomes a LOT creepier when you KNOW all your ex boyfriends have been fapping to that picture of you in the bikini from last summer.

/yes ladies, we all do it
 
fustanella
2012-01-12 08:29:10 AM
Aamelrons: I think that unless facebook goes off the deep end in terms of business suicide, they will survive.

Simply because mass migration is hard, many people don't want to re-upload every photo, convince their friends to join, don't want to have to manage another social network, ect.

The only way this will be killed is if a website comes out that automates the transfer, and allows you to contact and do facebook stuff through their client. Good luck getting Facebook to allow that.

You can (and should) download your Facebook data (if any), if but for archival purposes. The resulting archive looked pretty open and translatable to the Next Big Thing, when last I looked at it.

http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=116481065103985
 
way south
2012-01-12 08:34:43 AM
I don't think people want to do without a social network, now that they exist.
So the question is "what will replace Facebook"" before we get to the question of when it will die.

Right now it's the biggest and most common service.
Unless something better comes out of the blue and Facebook can't evolve to keep up with it, Facebook would be here to stay.
 
Gunny Walker [TotalFark]
2012-01-12 08:37:09 AM
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Eventually all facebooks come back to bite you. We need them, but there is no reason why we can't try a different one than the one currently ticking us off. We drink its elixer too much. Then one day we wake from our self-induced stupor and everything looks wrong. The sight of it makes us ask, "What year is this?" We crawl out of our cave and into the light and look for/at a whole new world. We seek an new facebook in the hopes to set all things right, and the process begins anew. It happens because ultimately we are all self-centered, bragging screw-ups.

Our hands are naturally idle and unproductive. They are our worst instruments of destruction/distraction. We must lop them off at the wrists (and replace them with chainsaws.)

/Klaatu, Barada, Nickel
 
RatOmeter
2012-01-12 08:43:41 AM
"Joining a new [social] network... Most of us have done this over and over again."

Uh, no.

"when an old social network dies... That embarrassing picture of yourself in your underwear? Impossible to find. Your indiscretions are wiped away,"

You wish it were that simple.

"Some of Friendster's profiles may still be stored in the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, but you'd have to remember your username and password to access them."

Huh? The Wayback machine records the user/password database and can authenicate your login? Shiat!

I think the author should have stuck to quoting the experts... I don't think she quite understands the web.
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2012-01-12 09:10:50 AM
I'd like to be a futurist. Make up a lot of shiat and by the time you're proven wrong, you've already cashed the check.
 
CygnusDarius [TotalFark]
2012-01-12 09:53:07 AM
Gunny Walker: Our hands are naturally idle and unproductive. They are our worst instruments of destruction/distraction. We must lop them off at the wrists (and replace them with chainsawsswords.)

The Facebook Emperor protects.
 
hasty ambush
2012-01-12 10:15:22 AM
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Ant
2012-01-12 10:21:53 AM
MySpace is evolving into a bird?
 
groppet
2012-01-12 01:13:40 PM
Of course something new will come out. People will go to it and facebook will be used by grandparents and companies like Best Buy. Try Faceyspace!!!!
 
Kommunaut
2012-01-12 01:16:10 PM
RatOmeter: "Joining a new [social] network... Most of us have done this over and over again."

Uh, no.

"when an old social network dies... That embarrassing picture of yourself in your underwear? Impossible to find. Your indiscretions are wiped away,"

You wish it were that simple.

"Some of Friendster's profiles may still be stored in the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, but you'd have to remember your username and password to access them."

Huh? The Wayback machine records the user/password database and can authenicate your login? Shiat!

I think the author should have stuck to quoting the experts... I don't think she quite understands the web.

epic win
 
verbaltoxin
2012-01-12 02:37:07 PM
Mugato: I'd like to be a futurist. Make up a lot of shiat and by the time you're proven wrong, you've already cashed the check.

But...but...the singularity is near!
 
MrEricSir
2012-01-12 05:27:33 PM
"Dead" is relative -- there's still more active MySpace users than Google+ users.
 
Mofo_Jones
2012-01-12 07:27:46 PM
"Well, let's see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes..."

...so MySpace is going to turn into oil and will fund more cars for Arabs. OK, gotcha.
 
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