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Originally Posted by Rizon
I really agree with you here.
Social network sites are like boy-bands. Their popularity skyrockets, then they slowly drop off the map. Facebook will be bumped off by the next big social network site, just as FB bumped off MySpace.
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Though Facebook is just as likely to die as any Web item, I don't think you compare FB to many of the other social network sites that came and went, or lots of other Web phenomenon. A very large proportion of people I know now use Facebook more than they use e-mail. It's now as much a synonym for them for using the Web as Google has become for searching. It's replaced their chat programs, their e-mail, and in addition has provided a new function that no other Web service did. That's a sort of penetration that I think only Google has achieved on the Web. I don't think Facebook will disappear easily.