[SmokeRose92]

Like others have said, I hope to hell it fades away. Most of the statuses are about fabulously menial things put up only to promote the person's smugness. I really couldn't give a cat's arse in hell that your shower water was tepid or that you're so drunk on a wednesday afternoon with the 'besties'. Please, shut up.

But yes, bring back going out of your way to talk face to face, not via a screen.

[ihatebrownbread]

(Original post by Quick-use)
To be honest, I now see Twitter stealing the lime-light. Facebook is slowly dying away. No-one really bothers with it any more; everyone is busy with bbm, twitter or something like Youtube. I'm not saying that Facebook is unused; simply that it's not as popular. People do status updates (but it's usually the same updates by the random people: "Awkward moment when..."), and the chat isn't as popular as, say, bbm (which is obviously restricted to Blackberry) and nobody really looks at photo albums as much. It's all a bit just for show: posting a picture to prove that you've done something or are doing something (how popular!-NOT. Going to the toilets during a dinner out is NOT cool ).

Sorry, rant over.

You wouldn't be the first person to get annoyed over a Facebook status

[bengalisoldier]

I would say nothing last forever right.

[ihatebrownbread]

(Original post by SmokeRose92)
Like others have said, I hope to hell it fades away. Most of the statuses are about fabulously menial things put up only to promote the person's smugness. I really couldn't give a cat's arse in hell that your shower water was tepid or that you're so drunk on a wednesday afternoon with the 'besties'. Please, shut up.

But yes, bring back going out of your way to talk face to face, not via a screen.

So many people get annoyed over things on Facebook like statuses and that yet it is still really popular.

[SmokeRose92]

(Original post by ihatebrownbread)
So many people get annoyed over things on Facebook like statuses and that yet it is still really popular.

Yeah, I think it's become a kind of reflex movement for a lot of people. Bored: check facebook. At work: check facebook. Home: Announce that you're home *smiley face* on facebook. I dunno, it just seems like it's addictive for people to use.

[PoGo HoPz]

(Original post by I Gurn Hard)
Totally agree, couldn't agree more. I agree with you.

So, just to clarify, you're saying you disagree with her?

[I Gurn Hard]

(Original post by PoGo HoPz)
So, just to clarify, you're saying you disagree with her?

No, i posted a few posts before her the same thing, so followed it up with a post to express my agreement with the thing she said (because I too had said it previously)

I can understand the confusion though, sorry, not particularly with it (been up since 6am farming)

[ManchesterUnited7_]

(Original post by ihatebrownbread)
that gets me thinking i wonder if the internet will be around in like 50 years

Well prob not tbh i doubt it ... The internet was deeloped like 20 years ago maybe ? So 50 years in the future who knows what we will be using

[Joinedup]

Imo it'll be going... But not necessarily still the biggest thing on the net. There were several 'biggest search engines' before google and most of them still have a page up even if they're not having any money spent developing them any more.
I'm pretty doubtful it'll make much money for investors in the ipo though.

[Mr.Zen]

Facebook will fade away into obscurity, like other has beens such as Myspace, Bebo, Piczo, etc. All great Empires fall, and another takes it place. It's Facebook's time right now, but give it between 5 - 10 years and it will die.

[winning11]

why do you think zuckerberg is selling hundreds of millions in shares, and he even said privacy is dead, he knows it's gonna go downhill from here, always been a smart guy.

[Folks]

No, it has already gone out of fashion for people my age in my city. It's all about Twitter now.

[adeena123]

I dont think people use facebook that much now, coz people I know are also on Twitter.. i think Facebook will die down a little in a few years! :P

[willbee]

I think the timeline is supposed to make it last longer. So it essentially replaces scrapbooking but instead of leaving us with fond memories collected in albums for us to look back happily at our lives we'll get to see how boring things really were and how often we complained.

Sad times for scrapbooking. :'(

[miser]

What's popular about Facebook is that most/all of your friends are on it. If that changes then the reason to keep using it goes away. I think if Facebook is still around in 20 years, it will be very different.

[MagicNMedicine]

I think its safe to say social media is here to stay....as for facebook who knows. It could go down the pan very quickly if they make a bad move - eg if they do one of their updates/revamps to the sites that brings in a feature that people really dislike, then you will get people leaving en masse and once peoples friends start to disappear they will ditch it as well.

[~Sanctified]

In 20 years Facebook would probably turn into something like ancestry.co.uk

[Cll_ws]

I don't use it that much anymore really, mostly just the facebook chat to talk to people. My profile is still constantly updating without me doing much, mostly photos and other people's status' that i've been tagged in, or comments from other people.
But I don't think i've actually left a comment on somebody's wall in months (other than the standard birthday ones) and I probably average a status every couple of months

it's the only social networking site i'm on though, I don't have twitter or tumblr or anything (twitter just seems like a site based around the parts of facebook that I barely use such as the status updating so I feel like if I did sign up it'd barely see any use). But my facebook now seems to of just become a glorified photo album haha, i guess it's also good for event organising and stuff like that.

It used to be that I barely used my phone and just got hold of everybody online, but it's flipped recently and I just text people, then maybe check facebook for 5 minutes every now and again.
I probably come on here more than facebook nowadays, which never used to be the case.

[Himynameskiefer]

It won't last. Facebook has done well for themselves, but like everything else (MySpace, etc), it will eventually fade away, and people will get bored of posting their profile pictures continuously with the same caption "returnzz xxx". My God, what has happened to society?

[Himynameskiefer]

(Original post by Cll_ws)
I don't use it that much anymore really, mostly just the facebook chat to talk to people. My profile is still constantly updating without me doing much, mostly photos and other people's status' that i've been tagged in, or comments from other people.
But I don't think i've actually left a comment on somebody's wall in months (other than the standard birthday ones) and I probably average a status every couple of months

it's the only social networking site i'm on though, I don't have twitter or tumblr or anything (twitter just seems like a site based around the parts of facebook that I barely use such as the status updating so I feel like if I did sign up it'd barely see any use). But my facebook now seems to of just become a glorified photo album haha, i guess it's also good for event organising and stuff like that.

It used to be that I barely used my phone and just got hold of everybody online, but it's flipped recently and I just text people, then maybe check facebook for 5 minutes every now and again.
I probably come on here more than facebook nowadays, which never used to be the case.

I rarely use Facebook, but I love Twitter. It's awesome. Facebook bores me, all people seem to care about is how many likes they can get on their status, and profile pictures. No-one actually posts any status that is relevant to them, just copy something that will get some likes. I always just think to myself, why? Why do you care about how many likes you get, what exactly is that going to achieve? They must think they're celebrities of the Internet because they got a few likes, and immediately believe they're higher than anyone/everyone else