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Once people believe they need or really want facebook as a "one stop shop" for the internet, just how so many believe they need facebook now for their social lives, they will be willing to pay for its services IMO.

Not likely, imo. Google has become the only company that is even close to a "one stop shoo" of the internet, and they are still pretty far off (from being a one stop shop). Facebook will never compete with google, much less netflix, hulu, ebay, amazon, yahoo, etc... all at the same time.

Also, the only way they could do this is a subscription service. As others have said, a subscription based facebook will kill FB.

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Posted by kfizzle85

Member since Dec 2005

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Posted on 5/21/12 at 9:33 pm to lsu6294

If the search function on this site was worth a damn, you could search "one-stop shop" on this board and find probably close to that exact same post from 2 years ago, 3 years ago, and probably 4 years ago.

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Posted by Jon Ham

Member since Jun 2011

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Posted on 5/21/12 at 9:48 pm to lsu6294

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Google has become the only company that is even close to a "one stop shoo" of the internet, and they are still pretty far off (from being a one stop shop). Facebook will never compete with google, much less netflix, hulu, ebay, amazon, yahoo, etc... all at the same time.

All these websites you listed have serious competition in each of their markets, whereas Facebook owns social networking. I would never expect facebook to roll out competing services with all these websites at the same time, but more like a slow evolution.

Also, people don't typically need to visit netflix everyday, or amazon or ebay, but they do need to check their facebook everyday if not multiple times a day or constantly throughout the day.

I know I use google almost everyday, but it will be a lot easier for facebook to incorporate e-mail and a search function than it will be for google+ to win over a big chunk of facebook users.