Facbeook is going down
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- valentim0
Anyone has an invite??
- Projectile0
google is going to be more of a useful tool, facebook will be the fun version and, by my reckoning, alway more popular than Google+
I mean for fuck sakes, it has 3 syllables!! too much hard work. "I'll google plus you." ...nope, sorry
- dorf0
if google had initially made this available to everyone, do you think there would be a lot of noise made of this service?
- Nah - that's the whole point of rolling it out like this
clearThoughts
- Nah - that's the whole point of rolling it out like this
- inteliboy0
Honestly, I think no-one knows. The last decade was a testing ground really... I'm not sure history is going to repeat itself.
Sure people are fickle, though the dust is settling. Sites like Facebook just aren't going to crash and burn anymore like, even if there is some new kid on the block.
That said, I really don't like the idea of having Google: mail, calendar, address book, docs, search, phone, browser, social networking, laptop, photos etc etc etc etc. That to me sounds like a locked-in ecosystem that Boz so fervently rants on about when it comes to Apple.
- BattleAxe0
the problem is that google is not really new , its just a new feature they are rolling out , that is a hard sell for the average non techy user ,
not to mention the investment of time of adding albums and videos , no one wants to do that once let alone twice
Facebook will be around just like dead myspace is still around no matter what you throw at it .
- instrmntl0
When a social platform becomes inundated with advertising, and your parents start to join and like it, it will die off. Facebook has reached this stage. Have you seen their recent ads?!
- ernexbcn0
Boz, you had me at "It won't happen maybe over night because it takes a while for hundreds of billions of people to start using something else"
Hundreds of billions of people. Yeah.
- Hahaha.I think he needs at least about 1,000 earths for that.Miesfan
- So what you're saying is more people use Facebook than develop with Flash?TheBlueOne
- inteliboy0
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Boz your Google fanboy meter is off the charts.People fucking LOVE Facebook. Especially girls. 90% of the time if you lean over to see what they are surfing - facebook.
- haha, I hadn't thought of it that way.. in 3 years time, all the boys on G+, all the girls on FB, d'oh.detritus
- right.. I'm fanboy of everything and the only logic that's valid is yours. First of all buddy, people don't love Facebook, they love vanity and notion of sharing their photos or post how they just woke up. Facebook just gave them a nicer way of doing it. They can do that on Google+ and much much better too. So it's not about girls loving Facebook. People in general hate Facebook, their smugness and privacy issues etc etc and it has been brewing for a while, but there was no platform that was as good so everyone kept using it and...Boz
- vanity and notion of sharing their photos or posts on how they just woke up. Facebook just gave them a nicer way of doing it. They can do that on Google+ and much much better too. So it's not about girls loving Facebook. People in general hate Facebook, their smugness and privacy issues etc etc and it has been brewing for a while, but there was no platform that was as good so everyone kept using it and now Google+ blows the shit out of them with MUCH superior network and apps and overall functionality.Boz
- doing it. They can do that on Google+ and much much better too. So it's not about girls loving Facebook. People in general hate Facebook, their smugness and privacy issues etc etc and it has been brewing for a while, but there was no platform that was as good so everyone kept using it and now Google+ blows the shit out of them with MUCH superior network and apps and overall functionality.Boz
- hate Facebook, their smugness and privacy issues etc etc and it has been brewing for a while, but there was no platform that was as good so everyone kept using it and now Google+ blows the shit out of them with MUCH superior network and apps and overall functionality.Boz
- was as good so everyone kept using it and now Google+ blows the shit out of them with MUCH superior network and apps and overall functionality.Boz
- apps and overall functionality.Boz
- When Google+ API comes out it's arrivederciBoz
- damn boz - reply in a message! anyway, you have a point, though it is 100% biased by your own views.inteliboy
- and i only call you a fanboy because you seem to throw the word around so often.inteliboy
- Miguex0
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"People fucking HATE Facebook."what planet are you from? :)
- They do man.. they just didn't have alternatives to go to.Boz
- I think people hate myspace, but facebook? already? really?Miguex
- if you really hate something, you don't use it, in my opinion.Miguex
- Well Facebook did work to an extent. It's not as if it was worthless piece of shit for users. It had a solid product, for that time, but no real competition.Boz
- time, but no real competition.They really heven't improved, they can't make huge changes how it works either and now Google shows us how much superior things can really be.Boz
- and now Google shows us how much superior things can really be.Boz
- I was checking g+ today, (thanks scarabin!) looks very niceMiguex
- Boz0
it's been so long since we so a GOOD social network like Google+.. Facebook looks like crap after using Google+ for a while but Google+ will and does FAR more than Facebook does.
And to those who say, Facebook is a way people keep in touch with their families. That's really completely irrelevant. Facebook is not Skype.. Skype has far more REAL value than Facebook ever had.
Facebook doesn't have a proper business model for fuck sakes and it's valued at 100 billion dollars.. are you nuts? It just shows how much investors and people are again so greedy and deluded they can't see what kind of bubble and idiocy they are investing in.
Btw, Google+ will eventually kill Facebook without a single doubt. When they completely integrate everything with their apps people use on daily basis (and like everyone) is using Google apps in one way or another, people start using hangouts, filter content with circles and start using Google+ as part of their lives on their devices and so on (which is only natural progression and is coming without a doubt) Facebook is dead.
It won't happen maybe over night because it takes a while for hundreds of billions of people to start using something else, to really dig and realize how much better Google+ really is to Facebook, a realization I've come to after using G+ for 2 days. It's ridiculously stupid for me to go back to Facebook. I'm not joking.
The bottom line, parents, families and so on go where their younger family members (those in the know) are going. And I have never seen a social network or a service that allowed me to add like over 100+ people on it in a day and have almost all of my friends on Google+.
It's inertia of the new thing, just like it happened to MySpace with Facebook. Is MySpace still around? Sure, but it's really kind of not popular at all.. this is what I mean will happen with Facebook. Some people will linger but REALLY, who's not going to switch to Google+ eventually? Especially with all those fantastic features and ability to video chat with multiple people etc etc. It's just next generation shit and Facebook doesn't really have an answer for and can't fight.
Facebook is not a product for people. It's a hangout place and as hangout place, they can switch to something in a blink of an eye.
Just watch what will start happening. Facebook will desperately start blocking Facebook apps and tools that help people export their content from Facebook so they can import it in Google+ which is already happening btw. This is the only way they will try keeping people.
Google+ is exploding and it's not even open to public yet. That tells you everything. People fucking HATE Facebook.
- Ah shit. We all know what happens when Boz takes a side. The opposition wins. Sorry, G+, I had hoped...detritus
- clearThoughts0
Considering that everybody is already on there, and that they have no more features to add... What's next?
I'm bored of my friends posting shit and videos...
- instrmntl0
Google Makes Facebook Look Socially Awkward
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB…
- jadrian_uk0
Absolutely, it's such a mess.
- nikefreerun0
NO,NO
- ThePublics0
Facebook is worth more than all human knowledge ever.
- epic_rim0
facebook is worth 100 billion dollars? Really? Why not 100 zillion dollars?
- Dodecahedron0
I don't see it going anywhere. Facebook has managed to get a huge portion of people to get in touch and stay in touch with real people that they know for real. Myspace never managed this, they turned everyone into spammers and connected teenagers to popstars. I see twitter going downhill long before facebook for similar reasons.