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Is Facebook becoming the next MySpace?

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Re: Is Facebook becoming the next MySpace?

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Post by scottmagdalein »

Facebook is going to forge a new path to irrelevance, not take the same path as MySpace. People will stop using Facebook because (1) they outgrow it, (2) they get tired of it, or (3) it lost its usefulness.

I don't believe another app will take its place. Rather, I think an existing app/platform is already Facebook's biggest competitor. And it's one you've been using for 30 years. Email.

Re: Is Facebook becoming the next MySpace?

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Post by arbuge »

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #22
joonix wrote: post #13

Well, people's engagement with facebook has certainly declined from its peak years ago. However, all your "friends" are on it. Nobody wants to go back through that process on an upstart network. Nobody has the energy or motivation. There's plenty of room for new entrants that take slices of your friends and optimize that experience. For example, another network for just your family... offering a close, intimate exper…

Going back and readding friends on a new network is a great way to shed the years of non-friend buildup that has occurred without hurting any feelings.

It could definitely be advantageous - Facebook was the first exposure to most of the world of a social network. When it came along many people added & accepted friends they didn't care much about at all in a spurt of initial enthusiasm, before learning over time that that might not have been such a good idea.

But I still don't think that would be sufficient to overcome the massive Facebook network effect now.

Re: Is Facebook becoming the next MySpace?

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Post by gawker »

murtza wrote: post #26
bravoyankee wrote: post #17

Facebook has been faking it for at least a year. By faking it I mean not growing under their own power. Now "Fakebook" either has to buy users (like the Instagram deal) or its growth is due to mostly fake users with fake likes giving fake metrics. People are leaving Fakebook now. Not in droves (yet), but the opinion leaders within groups and families are. The ones that are informed are. And the rest will follow once…

While a lot of people talk about privacy or content relevancy issues, which I agree are important, there is a good thread on Reddit discussing why Facebook can be bad for your mental health. One user writes, "I started to compare my life to others, hating people based off of their status...All it brought me was anger and a lower self-confidence. Almost immediately after deleting it, I felt better. I'm mostly ok with…

I think that's a very interesting thought. I deleted my Facebook account after I felt that it sucked up too much of my time just browsing status updates. Before, every so often, I would check Facebook to see if anything new had been posted. It got to the point where I had enough and now I feel less anxious about constantly going on the Internet. Information was overloaded for me.
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