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Re:Ten predictions (2004) by ImprovedSilence on Friday February 15, 2013 @10:54AM (#5226735)
>> 6. Oh come on, facebook, youporn, whatever. As I said, too vague.

Yeah, so he didn't call out a specific "type" of socializing, or draw up the wireframe for facebook here. But he just recognized there is a huge trend of people wanting to share their lives and communicate in near real time. I think he nailed it. Facebook and twiiter are just that. Even look at his move example. These days, you watch you movie or TV show, then laugh and comment on it with your friends not in the theater, but on facebook or twitter. I'd say he NAILED that prediction.

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Re:Ten predictions (2004) by doomlaser on Friday February 15, 2013 @11:18AM (#5226863)
Facebook already existed with over a million users when he wrote this.
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Re:Ten predictions (2004) by ImprovedSilence on Friday February 15, 2013 @01:02PM (#5227421)
Perhaps, but they were all in college, it was a very different FB. This article was written my sophomore year of college, and I hadn't even had a FB account yet.
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