It's over for facebook, they are myspace 2.0. They should count their blessings they bought instagram.
Not that I necessarily think Facebook is thriving right now, but I'm not convinced that Google Trends is a good indicator for established mainstream applications people already own.
Not trying to be cruel, but it seems like social media entities like FB seem almost impossible to unseat from their position of being the new public space of the 21st century.
Nothing over the last day has been overly surprising and pretty much typical facebook behaviour, doesn't seem like near enough to overcome the demand-side economies of scale they hugely benefit from.
He probably will. And again six months after that, and six months after that, and so on. Because it's fun and socially rewarding to predict an enemy's demise. Whether the prediction has any chance of coming true is irrelevant.
Facebook's core utility as the web's primary identity provider, and the network effects underlying that position, form a tremendous "economic moat."
The amount of time users spend on Facebook.com and the iOS/Android apps may decline and cut into their revenue, but their core platform isn't going away for a long time.
Maybe its just me being extremely privacy-conscious, but I only ever had Airbnb and Spotify linked to Facebook. I never wanted to link Facebook further into my life than I had to. When I deleted my Facebook account it was simple to convert my Airbnb account, and I just let the fb-linked Spotify account die with it.
That is one thing i found horrific when i went to delete my FB account. I was denied being allowed to delete it because my spotify was linked and spotify has no functionality to change your authentication method so I had to transfer my collection from 1 account to another just so i could delete my spotify so i could delete my facebook...
Facebook is only used by older folks at this point.
This is objectively false.