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What will be the next Facebook?
Posted on 5/18/12 at 10:04 am
Posted on 5/18/12 at 10:04 am
Just as everything goes, when you pioneer something, there is always something better to come along. (i.e. AOL email) Everyone had an aol at the start, now noone does. As facebook gets away from what it was set up to be (free social networking) and starts charging and eventually turns into a pay site, what will come along and be the new and improved facebook?
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Posted on 5/18/12 at 10:05 am to monroe71201
I'm under non-disclosure and not at liberty to say...
Posted on 5/18/12 at 10:05 am to monroe71201
a free social networking site....
Posted on 5/18/12 at 10:38 am to monroe71201
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Just as everything goes, when you pioneer something, there is always something better to come along.
I think with social networking it's different though
Once you have a huge user base it's tough to knock the big boy off the block
Google found that out the hard way
Posted on 5/18/12 at 10:56 am to Powerman
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I think with social networking it's different though
Once you have a huge user base it's tough to knock the big boy off the block
Tell that to Myspace. Their reign didn't last long, but they were huge.
Posted on 5/18/12 at 1:06 pm to ashy larry
I know conventional wisdom says that they'll get unseated eventually. I just think that it will be later rather than sooner.
Mobile connectivity is a much bigger thing now than it was when myspace was in their hay day. And facebook has a much larger user base than myspace ever did as far as I know (just guessing really)
Mobile connectivity is a much bigger thing now than it was when myspace was in their hay day. And facebook has a much larger user base than myspace ever did as far as I know (just guessing really)
Posted on 5/18/12 at 1:29 pm to monroe71201
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What will be the next Facebook?
TigerDroppings.com!!!!
Posted on 5/18/12 at 1:36 pm to Powerman
The industry is at two completely different points. People suggesting facebook is comparable to myspace in terms of the trajectory or life cycle of the business are clueless.
Posted on 5/18/12 at 1:52 pm to Powerman
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I know conventional wisdom says that they'll get unseated eventually. I just think that it will be later rather than sooner.
no argument here. I guess i am just used to people saying that they will never be topped.
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And facebook has a much larger user base than myspace ever did as far as I know (just guessing really)
you are correct. Facebook has over 800 million users while i don't think myspace ever came close to 200 million. but it is all relative in that social media is growing in popularity therefore the potential users are growing with it.
Posted on 5/18/12 at 9:37 pm to monroe71201
Facebook isn't going to pay formats. Their biggest growth is in developing countries. They don't want to require payment because that inhibits sharing and sharing is the lifeblood of their business.
Someone is going to mold your experiences in places like Twitter, Tumblr, Posterous, Facebook, etc in a way that is almost like a personal curator. A timeline and newsfeed cross that will provide you emails, news, updates, music, social media tailored to your social circle. It will require a ton of access into your life and habits.
It will require a quantum leap in terms of an almost AI level, which means that it will need to be compelling in order to invade folks privacy and info.
I don't see it happening soon.
Someone is going to mold your experiences in places like Twitter, Tumblr, Posterous, Facebook, etc in a way that is almost like a personal curator. A timeline and newsfeed cross that will provide you emails, news, updates, music, social media tailored to your social circle. It will require a ton of access into your life and habits.
It will require a quantum leap in terms of an almost AI level, which means that it will need to be compelling in order to invade folks privacy and info.
I don't see it happening soon.
Posted on 5/21/12 at 12:07 pm to monroe71201
Bitches love them some Pinterest
Posted on 5/21/12 at 12:11 pm to SEC CHAMP
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Bitches love them some Pinterest
Right. And post on facebook about it
Pinterest wouldn't be half the size it was if it weren't for facebook
Posted on 5/21/12 at 1:08 pm to monroe71201
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What will be the next Facebook?
Idea #1
The next "facebook" will be a peer-to-peer social networking engine with no centralized database and no unitary owner. It's less of a website and more of a framework layered on the internet and mobile networks, or even distinct therefrom. Users can be openly identified or remain anonymous, and seamlessly switch between the two modes. Fragments of user data and profiles will be redundantly scattered across the cloud in encrypted formats. Files and data can be shared with any other user or among groups of users securely and without being traced. Users can customize permissions for any and every piece of data they introduce to the cloud. Since there is no unitary owner or operator, facebook 2.0 will be a global ecosystem, a communicative force of nature that can't be compromised, abrogated, shut down, attenuated, or influenced in any manner by geopolitical forces. It is better characterized as the Next Internet, which evolves and devolves as society at large sees fit and which is rooted in the one inescapable, fundamental principle of Freedom of Communication.
Idea #2
Facebook started off as only for college students. Perhaps the next facebook will rediscover that same youth movement and (in whatever manner) appeal very highly to the teens and 20's. As the older generations make their way onto facebook, the "hip-ness" decreases and the intrusiveness & commercialization increases. The Next Big Social Network will favor the young and eschew commercialization, at least initially. (of course, this only lasts until new markets are desired and the urge to commercialize becomes too irresistible).
Idea #3
Privacy, privacy, privacy. You keep your own data. It is not uploaded to the web unless and until you choose to share it with others. Your profile page is housed on your own server of choice and not a central server. All user data remains property of the user. Same funcitonality of facebook, but fool-proof privacy.
Idea #4
Facebook 2.0 = Second Life 2.0
Idea #5
A profile framework becomes the universal standard accepted by virtually all websites. Essentially, you create a single profile that is recognized and utilized by any interactive website requiring a login/password. This is the e-equivalent to a global identification card. Web anonymity will be killed. Anything you do on any popular or legitimate website will be associated with your Universal Profile. Big Media sites will be the first ones to adopt the standard, and it will soon trickle down to everyone else. anonymous sites (such as TD) will either spike in popularity by a big subset of the web that values privacy or contract in usership under the mounting pressure to conform to the evolving web standards of practice.
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