Re:What will kill Facebook?
by gigawatt on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @09:22AM
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Isn't it conceivable that the next social network will start as a place for the younguns to get away from their parents? If you were 15, would you rather be at a party with all your friends and everyone's parents and grandparents and aunts and weird cousins or at a party with just your friends?
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Re:What will kill Facebook?
by jokermatt999 on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @10:26AM
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If that's the case, then the feature set would be focused toward a younger crowd, rather than the privacy features and such that people discussing a "Facebook killer" usually mention. I wonder if it could possibly be a step backwards in some areas.
4chan anyone?
Re:What will kill Facebook?
by lancewiggs on Thursday December 16, 2010 @03:46AM
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Yes - 4Chan is the new FB. It's deliberately unappealing, it's the new generation.
I liken Mys[ace/bebo/friendster/facebook/linked-in/4Chan/whatever to bars and nightclubs. They can get popular for a while, even wildly popular, but eventually they go out of fashion. Those 'pubs' with a slower cadence like Linked-in will take longer to die, but will also never reach the dizzy heights of the biggest 'clubs' like mySpace and Facebook.