Will Facebook end up like Myspace?

All things must pass. Eventually so many people will be upset about FB privacy issues, they will cancel – after they set up an account with a more responsible company.

It will happen when these situations become more widespread:
Someone tagged in another picture is falsely accused of a crime.
A suggested tag places someone in a compromising location causing relationship problems.
Police use it to search for (and prosecute) underage drinking.
Criminals use the facial recognition to identify empty homes – and sell that info to other criminal.
Digital spies use post info to formulate believable attack emails. (Already happening)

Facebook has the advantage of having more peoplemwho are using it than my space did, and people who are older us it. We people over 40 are more reluctant to try the new thing, so we stay loyal a little longer I think. But, facebook has really pissed a lot of us off. It is obvious from how facebook works to statements its founder has made that it/he does not give a shit about people’s privacy, and rights to their own information. To me another example of extreme greed. He would make plenty of money if he did care about those things, he just makes much much more, for now, not caring. Eventually there will be more backlash, like there has been with every company in history that behaves like this.

I hope so.

I’m sure Google hopes so… Facebook has done pretty well so far in surviving their direct assault, though.

If facebook keeps up with all the changes they’ve been making, especially with this new timeline layout, many users will probably close their account. Also, facebook doesn’t make it easy for you to completely delete your account.

I bet alot of people will migrate to Google plus or Twitter if they get sick of facebook.

facebook is already a near mirror image of myspace several years ago.

Facebook looks nothing like it did when I first signed up for it back in 2004. (it was wayyy better back then)

Facebook is too big and too diffuse – too many people that are irrelevant and too much spam and advertising. If it weren’t for Scrabble, I would have already left.

There exist any number of smaller, more selective networks. LinkedIn is one, although it is getting to be as spammy as Facebook. My guess is that smaller, more focused networks will eventually prevail.

@elbanditoroso I don’t understand your criticism… your own network is only as big and diffuse as you allow it to be. You control how many “irrelevant” people you’re interacting with, and can limit that number pretty easily (and selectively).

It always makes me smile when people say “Facebook is too intrusive – I’m switching to Google +”. Google is so much more intrusive than the average user realizes. At least Facebook is up front about it.

I think Facebook will survive another five years (an eternity in techworld) as long as they don’t make MySpace’s mistake of allowing users to customize their pages. It was so damned awful to open a page that looked like it had been glitter bombed with gawd-awful music blaring.

I don’t know really. I stopped regularly visiting FB two years ago and playing Farmville. I just log in maybe three times a month only because some friends continue to use it.

Yet it seems millions of young people around the world are crazy over FB and I can’t help but to think that there could be more and more young new users that would come in than disenchanted users abandoning FB.

Chances are, if Mark Zuckerberg gets to tweak FB just right making certain that this is the way the revolving door works, FB just might last a really long time. Another thing going his way is that no other website is offering serious competition yet.

The viruses and social breakups will be the summize of Facebook.

Too much secrecy and too many viruses live there.

I hope so.

The general movement at my university seems to be leaning towards Twitter and less on Facebook; facebook has privacy problems and all the changes (I mean really? A newsfeed by my newsfeed AND a newsfeed on my chat bar?) they are making.

GAH. What is this new timeline crap that Facebook is doing?

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-20111919-285/get-started-with-the-new-facebook-timeline/?tag=mncol;txt

Whenever a tech juggernaut becomes so rooted in our day-to-day living, it is hard to believe that they could ever fail. Can you imagine another company becoming a ‘google-killer?’ I can’t, at least right now since they have become so synonymous with internet search (but I’m sure this could happen). Facebook is the king of social networking, or so it seems. I can’t see it going down in the short-term. What has to happen is there has to be some up-and-coming service that makes fb irrelevant and catches on like wildfire. Adoption is key, they need to have a ton of subscribers, then they can think about overtaking fb. This makes for a high barrier to competition, that coupled with the fact that people are so used to fb, they would only switch if all of their friends (or at least the important ones) switched to another service. Google+ seems to be in the best position, because so many people have google accounts and their service is bundled in with it. But it seems it will take time, and people need a very compelling reason to switch up.

I used to love facebook. Then, some bad things happened. My friends started giving away my information on there, I got hacked, and, though this is probobly just teen angst, my dad signed on and starting stalking my account to the point where I was being ridiculed in school for it. So, I deleted my account. I’m on Twitter now, under a fake name, and it’s going much better.
But to answer your question, yes. Everything has a phase. The first two reasons I mentioned for my quitting will probobly take it down. It’s so easy for bad things to be spread through there that it will die soon enough.

I really hope not :(

Maybe not…