I predict disaster for Facebook

[Civrules]

If people don't bother to adjust their privacy settings, then maybe they get what they deserve. Companies should not be prohibited from screening job candidates by accessing freely available information.

Truth.

However I did take a class where I learned that even with the highest privacy settings, if superiors want to access your information, they can.

That is what I am concerned with. Furthermore, the snap-judgments people make about Facebook profiles are plain ridiculous.

I think this social networking thing is so new that people don't necessarily know how to make the right judgment calls with this stuff, yet.

 

[bhsup]

This whole "internet" fad and high speed stuff is gonna go by the wayside in a few years, and then I'll be able to bring back my old BBS I used to run 15-20 years ago when you could tell the connection speed by the sounds of the modems negotiating.

 

[NickyJ]

I don't see Facebook lasting very long. I wouldn't give it three years though. I'd say five. But then again, the world is supposed to end either in May this year, or 2012, so I'll say give it one year.

But really, what is so great about Facebook, Myspace, Myface, and Facespace? (All right, fine. Those last two probably don't exist, but they are basically all the same, so who cares...) All I see about those things are that you can rob a bank, then post you did it so the police can catch you, you can waste away hours of your day by trying to make yourself look stupid, or you can friend some guy in Nigeria who wants your credit card number. Oh, and did I mention making yourself look stupid?

 

[Dachs]

This whole "internet" fad and high speed stuff is gonna go by the wayside in a few years, and then I'll be able to bring back my old BBS I used to run 15-20 years ago when you could tell the connection speed by the sounds of the modems negotiating.

Thanks, Prince.

 

[bhsup]

*smack* The artist formerly known as Prince.

 

[Dachs]

He's been "Prince" since 2000.

 

[bhsup]

Seriously? Oh well, I don't much keep up on the musical happenings outside of Branson.

 

[amadeus]

That Google website is totally doomed too.

Same for that "Micro-soft" company I used to hear so much about. I mean, sure, they had DOS, but what are they going to do now?

 

[GamezRule]

Xbox 360?

 

[Cheetah]

I also remember something about some British colonies in America that rebelled. I wonder how long they lasted...

 

[GamezRule]

But according to Roman's 13, they should have submitted to King George III. I though we were founded on Christian principles?

 

[madviking]

But according to Roman's 13, they should have submitted to King George III. I though we were founded on Christian principles?

Treaty of Tripoli, mang.

As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

 

[GamezRule]

I declare:

Spoiler :

I thought you knew me better.

 

[Elta]

My Facebook 2 cents unrelated to the comments quoted: Saying Facebook will never be over taken is like saying that Facebook is smarter than every other programmer in the world.

Nonsense! .........

Then again look at how long coke has been #1 in the soft drink world
They seem to be better at making soft drinks (according to most people anyway)


Personally, I think and hope that the web evolves into a more modular sort of social integration. What am I talking about?

I don't know really.

Well, I have it pictured, but I am no programmer, so there is no sense in me trying to explain it. But, all say this -

When modular PC power supplies came out, I was ecstatic. "I need this wire, I don't need this junk, I'll toss that" etc. It was awesome, I think social networks might become more and more *modularized in the future?

*Is that a word? *shrug*

Facebook won't go away any time soon. We're in 2011 now, not 2005, '06, or '07 - Facebook is much more established now than MySpace or Hi5 or other similar sites were then when they began to fail. People have years of photos and messages and groups on the site that can't simply be ditched because they don't like the newest redesign or what other users are posting.
That doesn't mean that the site won't stagnate, or considerable amounts of users won't collectively lose interest and slash the amount of time they spend on Facebook. But I doubt that the site will ever be massively abandoned, by today's generations at least.

I agree with everything else you said, but this? (The bold piece) I don't think anyone factors that in at all.I mean, I delete pics after 2 or 3 months. And why would I care about old messages? Or groups? Groups can easily be reformed elsewhere. I could create the same "Vegas Virtual On Tournament Team" Group on any website With the same 40 cats.

All of this social networking stuff is rooted in real life, not the internet.

With the exception of maybe 10% I have the number of every single Facebook friend on my phone.

Is it ironic that members of an online forum are bashing facebook?

Absolutely

Facebook like many other things is great in moderation. I found it was great for checking up on long lost friends and family. It's important to use common sense when costumizing your privacy settings, being careful when accepting friend requests, and using common sense for what you put on there.

I totally understand why some people think the site is rubbish.
So many people abuse it by putting up too many inane personal things. It's quite perplexing what private things some will post for everybody to see. I'm getting a bit annoyed with a couple friends that feel compelled to be a "fan" of just about every page in existence. I have a friend who likes over 600 pages; nobody cares that your'e a "fan" of movies or hummus. It also seems that every other person has their own "professional" photography page these days.

I can relate or agree with all of this.

 

[GamezRule]

Is it ironic that members of an online forum are bashing facebook?

It is even more ironic considering what just made it on the wall of this forums main page, considering this forums title and reason for existence.

 

[Whomp]

Well, at 500 million users they seem to have a fair amount of critical mass so I'd be surprised if they went away anytime soon.

Everything about Facebook is gigantic.

The company says it has more than 500 million users, and more than three-quarters of them are overseas. It is growing like Topsy. More than half of users log on every day. In total, Facebookers waste — er, “spend” — 700 billion minutes on this website every month. That’s 23-1/2 hours per user. No kidding. That’s roughly the equivalent of a full day each month, or three eight-hour workdays, every month. According to comScore Inc., people worldwide now spend more time on Facebook each month than they do on all of Google’s sites.

In this context, the Goldman deal doesn’t look quite so crazy.

Even if Facebook didn’t add a single extra subscriber from here, a $50 billion market value would work out at $100 per user.

Is that too much? Think about all the data Facebook has about you, what you do and what you like. Think how much stuff its advertisers can sell you.


To earn a 20% return on $50 billion, without any growth in subscriber base or traffic, investors would need Facebook to make $10 billion in net income per year. That’s just $20 per user per year. It’s 7.1 cents for each hour one of them spends on the site.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-facebook-may-be-worth-50-billion-2011-01-04

 

[Elta]

*Is that too much? Think about all the data Facebook has about you, what you do and what you like. Think how much stuff its advertisers can sell you.


To earn a 20% return on $50 billion, without any growth in subscriber base or traffic, investors would need Facebook to make $10 billion in net income per year. That’s just $20 per user per year. **It’s 7.1 cents for each hour one of them spends on the site.

*Facebook has very little applicable advertising knowledge on me beyond what a conventional background check would give them.

**Over valued if most users are like me. On top of not giving them much information, I've never clicked on an add on facebook.

Then again, very few people are like your boy

 

[Whomp]

*Facebook has very little applicable advertising knowledge on me beyond what a conventional background check would give them.

**Over valued if most users are like me. On top of not giving them much information, I've never clicked on an add on facebook.

Then again, very few people are like your boy

Then you never use facebook. No pictures, no writing or viewing of anything on your wall or anyone else, no "I like it's" or even opening the site with your current ISP. They don't need to know "who" Elta is but what Elta type people want. Vegas, booze, babes? I think they know.

 

[Elta]

Meh, advertising has pretty much zero effect on my purchasing power.

I am not exaggerating.

And yes, I get what you mean, my information might help advertisers sell things to other people like me. But it won't help with me.

 

[Camikaze]

You're the exception that proves the rule, then.