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2014-01-25 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Facebook to die out by 2017, say experts

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Posted by Fred 2014-01-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 I guess I'll have to find another way to swap photos of amusing cats with friends & relatives.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-01-25 02:24|| 2014-01-25 02:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Facecrook and other similar social venues are doomed because of privacy abuses. Few people voluntarily create a personal dossier so that the government, criminals, lending institutions, or their employer can monitor or exploit their activities.

*gov't/criminal redundancy noted.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-25 05:20|| 2014-01-25 05:20|| Front Page Top

#3 I'll make sure I don't pay for it past 2016 then

Posted by Frank G 2014-01-25 09:59|| 2014-01-25 09:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Never undrstood h people ould want to be on facebok. And for twitter... who in ho sane mind ould want to _read_such trascendental texts like; "Iwasjust inthe toilet Used three sheets of paer"?

Posted by JFM 2014-01-25 10:47|| 2014-01-25 10:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Princeton should go eat a sock. Saying Facebook will go away because Myspace did and disease models?

Like that whole watching movies at home thing would go away?

The technology will change and improve, people will continue to work from a social media.

Second, how many stores use facebook as a virtual mall store? Something will have to come about to create enough buzz to attract that bloc of business and people will still not close out their facebook.

Disease models.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-01-25 15:33|| 2014-01-25 15:33|| Front Page Top

#6 RIP

Posted by Jineck Lumplump8513 2014-01-25 16:37|| 2014-01-25 16:37|| Front Page Top

#7 ... and disease models?

If you plug the Facebook numbers into a nuclear chain reaction model, it blows up way before 2017.

In the same way a map is not the territory, a model is not the thing being modeled. I don't doubt that Facebook adoption and epidemics share an S-shaped growth curve, but that does not mean they end the same way.

Posted by SteveS 2014-01-25 16:58|| 2014-01-25 16:58|| Front Page Top

#8 How long do I have to wait to be the last to join?

Posted by Shipman 2014-01-25 19:29|| 2014-01-25 19:29|| Front Page Top

#9 My son the entrepeneur is getting paid by his company for the first time in almost 3 years of existence. His company has just hired another 4 people to bring the total to ~16.

His company, Social Made Simple, is an interesting idea that provides services and software to make connecting to Social Media for businesses easy(ier). He started with his knowledge of the Real Estate business and it's growing from there.
He's currently working a pilot partnership with Constant Contact that seems to be growing well.

How many body parts can a father cross? He always wanted to be a millionaire by the time he was 40, he's got nine years to go.

Posted by AlanC 2014-01-25 19:47|| 2014-01-25 19:47|| Front Page Top

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