I am already spending way more time in Twitter and FF than on Facebook, and I suspect this trend will continue, especially if every time I log into Facebook I have to ignore these stupid requests... - Marc Dierens
Ben it is really hard to say, but Face Book is a walled garden! In the long run walls cave in and a community is destroyed! Here on FF we may disagree, fight, even raise hell, but we come to turns with each other and respect each other! It is all out in the open, for everyone to see! - Igor The Troll
Marc, i share the same pattern with you. Twitter, FF and Plurk are where i'm spending most of my time on, rather than Facebook. Many of my friends lost interests in facebook as well. but some of them still love to stay long time there, as Facebook offer limited storage for photos. - Jansen Lu
Facebook has become overpolluted with viral applications. It's lost the KISS principle. I see it fading, as will MySpace. I see social networks being like nightclubs - they have a shelf life. - Craig Thomler
it will eventually plateau, as MySpace has, perhaps within the next 6 months. What I don't know is whether the decline will be slow as with MySpace, or quick. - Duncan Riley
Facebook has reached a plateau, at least as far as its relevance is concerned. It will be around for a good long time but I doubt it will be anywhere near as vibrant as it was 9 months ago. - Steve Spalding
Wow, we all seem to agree with each other! I like the Night Club metaphor, it is really right on spot here! - Igor The Troll
It will be one of many social networking providers, who are working with a standard (social) networking service of the internet, which grow up from the data portability initiative. - Sebastian Küpers
within 5 years, desired, acquired, faded, upbraided, reorged, deformed, non-performing, storm warning, gone. - Alan Wilensky via twhirl
I definitely think it will continue to grow & be bigger & better than Facebook. It's the social network I use most often (that's not including aggregators, microblogs, etc). - ChaCha Fance
it depends, most likely it will devolve into a mess like MySpace and a more usable site will open up. - Darren Daz Cox
Facebook is old hat, tiresome crap trying to re-invent itself with new functionality which doesn't reach the user cuz of all the blinding spammy apps!! Prediction: FB will continue to grow (it IS mainstream now) and will loose luster like LinkedIn already has. - Susan Beebe
Facebook has acheived mass popularity....something that Twitter/Friendfeed etc only aspire to do. Annoying as it is Facebook will be modestly bigger in two years and be worth over $15 b unless, of course, the American economy crumbles entirely. - chantelle via twhirl
@Susan - LinkedIn lost its luster? Please explain. It just raised a billion and I have tons of people joining the network still. - Ben Parr
Ben: I have nearly 1,000 "connections" so obviously I know LinkedIn well; in fact, I am the founder of the FriendFeed Friends Group http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/... so do respect the app. But did you notice that they have built a walled garden with zero integration with any other app? This is a stale socnet strategy, maybe just me but I think they need to open up their app, e.g. status updates would be so easy to update via twitter... hello?! - Susan Beebe
Ben, is there away to message all group members at one time? I am still lost on LinkedIn! - Igor The Troll
@Igor - One of LinkedIn's great weaknesses is its lack of features and search for Groups. I've heard from internal sources they're working on it, but they've got so much on their plate. But so far, no. I'd still like to message my 200,000 member Facebook group, but that still can't be done. - Ben Parr
I have concrete proof FB will fail: Former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey left the site after his posts on people's walls started showing up on gossip sites. If that's not a harbinger... - David Shankbone
David, there is something about the Internet you need to realize! Nothing is private, not even emails! - Igor The Troll
I think that's why he left. I think people are just going to have to own up to themselves more with social media, cameraphones, Twitter, e-mail, Gawker, etc. Mine as well just be honest about yourself lumps and all. It's freeing. - David Shankbone
