> Doesn't Zuck have enough of the Internet?
Well he needs something else as facebook as we know it will be dead in 10-15 years
Well he needs something else as facebook as we know it will be dead in 10-15 years
He seems to be a good job of trying to control EVERYTHING.
You can't blurt out a statement like that without giving any explanation.
The only somewhat useful exception is Yahoo! and they have reinvented themselves many times.
Yes, anecdotal, but not blurted out.
(Examples that are dead or in severe decline: Tripod, Geocities, Blogger, Orkut, Myspace, etc.)
I _think_ that what Facebook is seeing is that social networks as a huge monolith is dying, that youth is abandoning it first in favor of specialized, niche networks. It's common psychology, really. Youth never enjoyed hanging around with their parents. If parents use Facebook to talk, they'd rather pick something else, like Kik.
Google is seeing it with Google+, which turned into a social network for photographers and geeks, so nowadays they mostly just pump out new photography oriented features.
I think they're careful to say it though since it might indicate a weakness in their strategy, a problem for advertisers:
> “I feel photos are the lifeblood of our service,” said Google+ lead Bradley Horowitz during the conference in 2012. “They are the way we can most immediately and viscerally connect as human beings.”
They're careful to say "photos" are the lifeblood, not "photographers".
Anyway, I think that within as little as five years ahead, we'll still see Facebook a very big company, but many smaller services. If that strategy is successful, I think we'll keep seeing Facebook as a big company for the foreseeable future. I don't think they'll be dead in 10 years, definitely not. But I do think people will barely know they're hanging around on Facebook and they'll have apps for all common demographies.