Ask HN: Where do you expect Facebook to be in 5 years?

The Winklevii will be suing Facebook from the ICC in The Hague.

Showering us with augmented reality contact-lenses so we'll be able to see geolocation-facebook. I.e. look out the window of my office and see conversations between people and join in if I must.

Wait. Facebook isn't that awesome. :)

It will merge with the gov't - your ID/DL and FB will be closely related, it will enter many verticals (e.g. compete with LinkedIn in the professional networking space), it will seek to impact more deeply by blurring the line between virtual and real life, it will start selling discount stuff (like Groupon) to kids. It will basically become the MS of web 2.0

But then again, I have no idea! :)

As Google has become THE search engine, Facebook will be THE social networking site (which it already is). I don't think it will get bigger than being a social networking tool, and on the other end of the scale I highly doubt it will end up like MySpace...

Closer to being Myspace than Google

I dun think it will go. It will be an essential part of our lives (just like google now), but it definitely won't receive so much hype.

When Facebook IPOs in the near future, lots of talent will leave to pursue other lucrative opportunities.

I'd say the mobile Facebook app or site will be improved a lot. Messages will be used instead of texting in a lot of cases. It will have video chat integrated.

Search will be better too.

Having finally incorporated email for all users, in five years time, they'll finally be bothering with voice chat. And all its users will think Facebook invented the idea.

I think they will still have a solid userbase, but will be far less hyped.

Somewhere in-between where AOL and MySpace are today.

Facebook will be around, but where will the data be?

They will reach maturity

Dead, hopefully.

A bank company

gone.

Like anything it has its high time and people just get tired of things and move to the next best thing.