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1 hour ago, TexasEd said:

Facebook is going the way of AOL.  Now it is really only a glossier version of Craigslist and a social calendar event organizing tool.  

Only if somebody else pops up with a major platform that mom and pop can use, that has everything that FB already has.

AOL didn't make the leap to broadband provider, so they fell behind their competition fast. AOL was selling internet access over dial-up, and once broadband hit the mainstream scene, a big chunk of AOL's userbase no longer had a need for AOL - AOL would be yet another expense on top of their broadband bill (for many, AOL was their internet access until broadband came along).  In other words, AOL didn't evolve, while FB has evolved over time with things like Instagram, marketplace, etc.

AOL wasn't profitable in a way that FB is - their profit relied on people using their service sparingly, and when they started to fall behind the competition, they went from an hourly fee to a monthly fee in the late 90s, and it killed their profit margin when people stayed logged in trying to find horny men and women in Austin and Dallas.  FB doesn't face that dilemma because their revenue increases when usage increases.

Finally, the AOL-Time Warner merger completely turbofucked everything.  Facebook is not merging with anybody at that kind of scale.

There are very few things that can send FB the way of AOL.  It would have to be a competently run platform that offers much of what FB has, just as AOL was wiped out by broadband providing better connection services than AOL.  When broadband came along in a big way, people were willing to forego AOL for the better internet access, and would then go find AdultFriendFinder.com or whatever to bang hot ladies and dudes in Austin and Dallas.  Apple, Microsoft, and Google are the only companies that could offer a platform at that scale that could compete with FB, and Google has made runs at it, and I'm not sure Microsoft can do that for a lot of reasons (and arguably they have a platform with LinkedIn, but it's no FB).

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13 minutes ago, cmontexas said:

I remember Google Plus

So does Facebook.  And don't forget Orkut either.

Google had Google Drive/Photos, YouTube (a bigger social media platform than Facebook), Blogger (which would have been an easy platform for individual user pages) and a bunch of other services, but Google is gonna Google.

Somebody wrote a book that claimed it scared Zuckerberg and he forced the company to boost a lot of areas or add new features.

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The next big social media platform won't come from any of the legacy tech giants IMO. MBAs know how to make money but they can't figure out how to entertain.

It's like the old casinos where you were having so much fun all night you didn't care if you went home broke. Then they shifted to trying to seperate you from as much of your money as quickly as possible. It works but eventually you're gonna stop coming back.

I'm also curious how exactly people define "social media" Is it the personal aspect of it, attaching your name and image to the content you put online? How is that really different from message boards besides the pictures and fake names? 

All the youngsters I interact with mention Discord and I dont really understand what's going on there. So Im gonna put my chips behind that being the next big thing

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This mash up of many Zuckerberg interviews is a must. It has the Swisher/Mossberg one where he had a panic attack on stage when they grilled him like a steak

And it has the entire meaty part of the interview where he self immolated himself over Holocaust denial.

 

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41 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

When broadband came along in a big way, people were willing to forego AOL for the better internet access, and would then go find AdultFriendFinder.com or whatever to bang hot ladies and dudes in Austin and Dallas. 

Yahoo Personals, was the next evolution. Yahoo pretty much offered a similar walled garden as AOL but without being the ISP.

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7 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

This mash up of many Zuckerberg interviews is a must. It has the Swisher/Mossberg one where he had a panic attack on stage when they grilled him like a steak

And it has the entire meaty part of the interview where he self immolated himself over Holocaust denial.

 

55 minutes is quite a bit more than my brain can process. Can I get a Tik Tok version?

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