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Facebook is not going anywhere. These are all smart business moves to make it an almost necessary part of our lives. "Facebook is like chairs" seems to quite li
by pav3l 14y ago
Facebook is not going anywhere. These are all smart business moves to make it an almost necessary part of our lives. "Facebook is like chairs" seems to quite literally describe the end goal of their campaign. I would argue they are doing a very good job, perhaps on par with De Beers and Coca Cola in their time.
- JoeAltmaier 14y agoPeople flee gimmicks for new gimmicks in a hearbeat. Facebook will evaporate one day, like all the fads before them. Sure there is inertia to social patterns. But to overcome it, you don't have to convince 1B people in a row; you have to create impetus enough to overcome one person, times 1B in parallel.
- endlessvoid94 14y agoWhat makes you think facebook is a fad?
- muuh-gnu 14y agoAll the other similar fads before them.
- gojomo 14y agoFacebook has already remained vital and growing longer than the Friendster/MySpace precedents, and the Geocities/Angelfire precedents. They're looking more like email or the web itself. Or the telephone. Or did you have other 'similar fad' examples in mind?
- JoeAltmaier 14y agoNow that you mention it, email! Its going the way of the 1st-class stamp.
- hilko 14y agoI think this line of reasoning depends on whether there are actual previous examples of 'gimmicks' the size of facebook evaporating in this manner. Without any research on the matter, I'm inclined to say Facebook is simply too large and to entrenched at this point to be a fad. It's qualitatively different from fads in the same arena that came before it. But it's an honest question. If there are previous examples of facebook-like fads suddenly disappearing, the line of thinking is sound and possible.
- mrslx 14y agoI suppose email was a fad? Fb has replaced all my personal communications
- joonix 14y agoOh please, this is such a basic feature, Facebook should be embarassed it took them this long. My Android phone came with this built in with Google+, and it also prompts me to sync with Dropbox if I choose. No "tapping" either, it does it automatically after a photo/video is taken.