Will Facebook disappear in 5 to 8 years? That seems to be the thrust in an article, entitled “Facebook Will Disappear in 5 to 8 Years.” But first, let’s define ‘disappear.’ The author means faded in significance, not dead and gone.
“In five to eight years (Facebook is) going to disappear in the way that Yahoo has disappeared. Yahoo is still making money, it’s still profitable, still has 13,000 employees working for it, but it’s 10 percent of the value that it was at the height of 2000. For all intents and purposes, it’s disappeared.” CNBC.com
So, still around, but far from the big gun it is today. But why? He says it’s evolution, and a new age is beginning. The web started with big portals like Yahoo. Remember Yahoo was your home page, you had mail, you had news sources from everywhere posted on the page? That’s a portal. Then came the social media age, first with Myspace, and then dominated by Facebook. Now, everyone is moving to mobile devices and leaving the desktop behind. Facebook has admitted its troubles in mobile, primarily the inability to make any money from the platform.
So, if all of this is true, what’s next? Do you have any ideas? Do you know of any cool apps or services that could possibly inherit Facebook’s mantle? Let us know!
I am finding Facebook everywhere to the point where it becoming invasive.
Frankly, from the moment FB launched the “timeline” format, I predicted its demise. That is a bad design. It is extremely difficult to make heads or tails out of what is on a page. It is SLOW in in Timeline phase. There is too much header image and not enough real data visible. I see it as poor design that is pushing them toward a spiraling demise and failure.