When will FaceBook stop climbing and start falling?

[SactoGuy18]

I think Facebook will REALLY take off if they can connect to users of Gree.jp or Mixi in Japan, the two most popular social networking sites in that country.

 

[R94N]

It's hard to predict things like this because anything could happen. Things turn so quickly in this industry.

 

[notjustjay]

5 years from now ... a common statement will be ... I can't believe I was on Facebook and wasted so much time with it.

Again that depends on what people are doing with it.

When I first started on Facebook I played some of those stupid apps like that "hatch and grow a pet bird" thing. I know lots of people who are on FarmVille (and all of the spinoffs like CityVille). I now block all invitations from apps like that because if I don't, I get spammed with requests. THIS is the sort of thing that I think (I hope?!) people will tire of and realize is a passing fad.

What Facebook is good at is keeping your social circle a bit bigger than it normally would be. I don't need Facebook to know what my immediate family and closest friends are doing because, well, I talk with them all the time. But my friends that I otherwise don't see or talk to very often, or the people who used to be really good friends in grade school or university -- were it not for this casual connection on Facebook, there would be no connection at all.

THAT is why I use it, and that is why I will keep using it... but if that basic concept starts falling into the shadows of whatever else they come up with, then it will be time to leave.

 

[Cuddles]

I want it to start going downhill because it's extreme popularity is becoming annoying.

Especially if you mom finds out about it and then starts her addiction on it.

 

[mrsir2009]

Especially if you mom finds out about it and then starts her addiction on it.

Thank god my parents think its stupid