Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Facebook is Dying

baekdal.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 97 posts

Re: Facebook is Dying

#11

Post by m0th87 »

fnid2 wrote: post #2

As a consultant to the dot-com industry around the turn of the century, I traveled a lot. I took a lot of long cab rides from airports to downtowns. I talked to lots of cabbies. At some point, I knew the end was near. I knew the end was near when cabbies started asking me if it was a good idea to invest in some particular technology stock or another. Why are cabbies investing in Juniper Networks? Recently, I started…

My technically inept family members have been using Google for years. But I don't see their shares tumbling.

Re: Facebook is Dying

#12

Post by faramarz »

What a crock of shit. Pardon my french.

If you're going to close your account, the world doesn't need to hear about it. Those of you jumping on the bandwagon to close your accounts probably can't come up with a real reason why you joined the service in the first place. So stop your whining.

2 bloggers ranting about their demise doesn't count for the rest of the population.

Facebook is here to stay. you know why? because it's the only app that you, your mother and your grandmother (mine anyway) are on and navigating with ease.

Re: Facebook is Dying

#13

Post by jacquesm »

m0th87 wrote: post #11
fnid2 wrote: post #2

As a consultant to the dot-com industry around the turn of the century, I traveled a lot. I took a lot of long cab rides from airports to downtowns. I talked to lots of cabbies. At some point, I knew the end was near. I knew the end was near when cabbies started asking me if it was a good idea to invest in some particular technology stock or another. Why are cabbies investing in Juniper Networks? Recently, I started…

My technically inept family members have been using Google for years. But I don't see their shares tumbling.

I'm sorry, I don't see your point. Could you elaborate?

Re: Facebook is Dying

#14

Post by jacquesm »

faramarz wrote: post #12

What a crock of shit. Pardon my french. If you're going to close your account, the world doesn't need to hear about it. Those of you jumping on the bandwagon to close your accounts probably can't come up with a real reason why you joined the service in the first place. So stop your whining. 2 bloggers ranting about their demise doesn't count for the rest of the population. Facebook is here to stay. you know why? beca…

They seem to be somewhat desperate though, judging by the sign-off screen:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/what_happens_when_you_d...

Re: Facebook is Dying

#15

Post by faramarz »

jacquesm wrote: post #14
faramarz wrote: post #12

What a crock of shit. Pardon my french. If you're going to close your account, the world doesn't need to hear about it. Those of you jumping on the bandwagon to close your accounts probably can't come up with a real reason why you joined the service in the first place. So stop your whining. 2 bloggers ranting about their demise doesn't count for the rest of the population. Facebook is here to stay. you know why? beca…

They seem to be somewhat desperate though, judging by the sign-off screen: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/what_happens_when_you_d...

Thats not desperate, that's a great retention technique! Every startup can learn from this. If you don't have a practice to retain your users, you don't care about the success of your business.

Re: Facebook is Dying

#16

Post by lukeqsee »

fnid2 wrote: post #4
lukeqsee wrote: post #3

Wow. This is the 5th post of the demise or disgust of Facebook -- today. Are we just hating on them, or are these posts signaling a drastic change in our posture towards them? I don't know, but I suspect FB will have to respond to these cries, or risk their hacker users.

You gotta understand, for hackers, most things are binary: black or white. Either facebook is great, or they are evil and the switch just got flipped. Hackers are trend setters on the web. Watch them.

Quite true. I guess it was a rhetorical question. It seems the switch is either flipped, or very, very close to being flipped.

Re: Facebook is Dying

#17

Post by fnid2 »

jacquesm wrote: post #9
jasonlbaptiste wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook is not sticky? hundreds of millions of people logging in every day and consuming the site for a high number of pageviews redefines sticky.

I think whether it is sticky or not is not the right item to focus on (though it obviously is). The question of whether or not they have serious user churn is the interesting one.

I don't believe it is and here's why. It's easy to link to your facebook profile. If you create an orkut profile, you can add a link to your facebook profile there and simply stop using facebook.

Eventually, it'll get too costly to maintain the infrastructure to support facebook or the customers -- that is, the advertisers -- will think another ad network is hotter and people will forget about facebook.

You could say, "But all my messages are in there. All my photos and my farm..."

But I'm a techie and I have had computer hard drives fail and take my life with them. Within a week, I forgot all about it. Sure, I wish I had that awesome paper I wrote for some class or another or the code for some program I wrote in high school that drew pretty pictures with mathematical formulas, but I'm okay with out it and life goes on.

And life will go on without facebook. Life goes on without myspace and linked in and friendster and...

Re: Facebook is Dying

#18

Post by jacquesm »

faramarz wrote: post #15
jacquesm wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They seem to be somewhat desperate though, judging by the sign-off screen: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/what_happens_when_you_d...

Thats not desperate, that's a great retention technique! Every startup can learn from this. If you don't have a practice to retain your users, you don't care about the success of your business.

That's not a retention technique (even though it may work as such), that's a last ditch attempt.

A retention strategy makes sure that people never reach that page.

Re: Facebook is Dying

#20

Post by kristiandupont »

fnid2 wrote: post #2

As a consultant to the dot-com industry around the turn of the century, I traveled a lot. I took a lot of long cab rides from airports to downtowns. I talked to lots of cabbies. At some point, I knew the end was near. I knew the end was near when cabbies started asking me if it was a good idea to invest in some particular technology stock or another. Why are cabbies investing in Juniper Networks? Recently, I started…

You've known for years that the end is near for Facebook and yet facebook has been and is growing insanely. I am tempted to repeat jacquesm's comment about all os us dying above..
Post reply on HN