Do you think facebook will fade away?

It seems like all my friends and people at school use facebook everyday but I've stopped. I realized it was a waste of my time and it didn't really do anything for me, I don't really care what my friends are doing when I'm not with them. I think facebook will disappear after they really start invading people's privacy or something way better will come out offering total privacy. So what about you guys? Do you still use facebook? How long do you think facebook will be around?

I don't know, I remember thinkin myspace was going to be around forver, and look what happened there, Facebook kinda murdered it.  Although I still like myspace for band music news...

I sure hope not. The chaos that would ensue! 

I deleted my facebook account last month. I would like to think it'll fade away, but google never faded away like alta vista or dogpile did, so it facebook might not go away of friendster or myspace did.

I don't see any other promising social networking sites on the horizon so I think Facebook is here to stay.

I hope not, it's a cheaper way of keeping in touch with family and friends across the pond. 
Calling them would get mad expensive.  
But I guess not having friends would make me not care about FB but "sadly" that is not the case.  
I have been smitten by the Facebook fad. Except for all the weird "games" on there o.O

Of course it will. It's a fucking website, how long do they generally stay? Not more than a few years

NEVER.

Yeah, someday, but something else will take its place.

" NEVER. "

If it went away my mom would be pissed.

Facebook will definitely burn out over time. All sites do and it's perfectly understandable for such a thing to happen. However, how long Facebook will take is going to be interesting to see. I have an account on the site and I do not use it too much. However, I like having access to two social networks, as I use Twitter more for discussions with people I know from the internet. If Facebook burns out I have a feeling Zynga Games will have part in that seeing as they have threatened to pull off FB and use their own site instead to get the FarmVille Addicts converted. Twitter is a good site in itself, but it lacks the features Facebook offers, and therefore it will probably not take over in the same manner. Then again the excitement seems to be minimum features now - MySpace burned out and it had more features than Facebook. Granted they were not as well executed, but there were more features present there for customising profiles at least.

i hope it won't. Who knows what will happen to my college friends after 10 years?
 
FACEBOOK STALKER.

" I hope not, it's a cheaper way of keeping in touch with family and friends across the pond. Calling them would get mad expensive.  But I guess not having friends would make me not care about FB but "sadly" that is not the case.  I have been smitten by the Facebook fad. Except for all the weird "games" on there o.O "

It will not fade away, it will transform into something else, just like Myspace transformed into Facebook, and the charade will live on.

If ppl has a face, they will keep using it, unless they don't have a face anymore and wants to stay trendy.

Chances are something will better it. It's hard to fathom now, but it's harder to fathom Facebook being around forever. 

For regular, well adjusted people with friends, I doubt it. This is a thinly veiled facebook hate thread.

" Of course it will. It's a fucking website, how long do they generally stay? Not more than a few years "

I think so, eventually. It'll lose steam because teenagers are the bread and butter of social networking sites, yet they are fickle, so they'll eventually move on to the next big thing, whatever that is. Myspace ain't what it used to be. Eventually, Facebook will become that.

I doubt it ever will. Facebook has a framework which extends beyond its main site and into others. A new social networking site would have to be something really special to top Facebook. 

" I hope not, it's a cheaper way of keeping in touch with family and friends across the pond. Calling them would get mad expensive.  But I guess not having friends would make me not care about FB but "sadly" that is not the case.  I have been smitten by the Facebook fad. Except for all the weird "games" on there o.O "

" @FlyingRat said:

" Of course it will. It's a fucking website, how long do they generally stay? Not more than a few years "

Facebook has been around for a while now.  I created my account in 2005. "

" @ZeForgotten said:

" I hope not, it's a cheaper way of keeping in touch with family and friends across the pond. Calling them would get mad expensive.  But I guess not having friends would make me not care about FB but "sadly" that is not the case.  I have been smitten by the Facebook fad. Except for all the weird "games" on there o.O "

Call with skype? "

" Of course it will. It's a fucking website, how long do they generally stay? Not more than a few years "

Nothing lasts forever, especially on the internet.

Facebook may fade sometime in the foreseeable future, but giant bomb will reign forever.

Giantbomb will take over it.

Facebook might, but social networking will outlast mankind.

Eventually, but not anytime soon.

" @FlyingRat said:

" Of course it will. It's a fucking website, how long do they generally stay? Not more than a few years "

*looks around*  well it looks like its time for me to get outta here... "

if what i hear about facebook wanting to charge people money for using it is true, then it will fade away

Well nothing lasts forever that's for sure.

Eventually it will whenever the newest flashier social networking site comes along to dethrone it.  It's just like how people though that Everquest would never be topped but then World of Warcraft came along, or how few people thought Myspace would get old until Facebook started getting more recognition.

Nothing is eternal but that is the easy answer. Right now, I don't see it going away for a long time. 400 million users are part of Facebook, it is the largest site, only behind Google. Facebook has apps on every Smartphone, integrated itself across other websites (GiantBomb, Pandora, Yelp), introduced a "Like" button to share content you came across the web with friends (Like Digg) and keeps adding features from other trending sites like Foursquare (bringing Location updates) and Twitter( Using a form of @ replies, well almost). We have Blizzard integrating Facebook into Battle.Net 2.0 for Christ Sakes.  
 
If they could control their privacy issues and perhaps hire a person to do some decent PR, Facebook will remain king of all things social. That being said, teenagers are the quickest to call out what is trendy and with several of them now questioning Facebook's privacy, I'm sure a large amount of the users will head over to anything up and coming, like Diaspora. People donated large amounts of money to this open source social hub being built and the four guys only had one line of code started. People want something out there to compete with Facebook. 
 
Facebook will still survive though, when people realize they spent years and are integrated with the site. The hub for all their friends, updates, pictures and games with no easy way to export out. Until Facebook screws the pooch so horribly the dog needs therapy, it is here to stay for a while.

As much as the pretentious douches like to think "It's just a fad." it's here to stay. 

Don't see it happening anytime soon. 

I'm guessing that something else will come out that people will become obsessed with

First, the people in charge of facebook, i.e. Zuckerberg and company, will die rich men, so will their children, and their childrens' children.  They have as much freedom as you can have in this world.
 
Second, I think facebook will slowly fade away and that it is time to cash in the stock.  It will take decades for it to be shut down, if ever.  However, I believe it is a flawed product, long term.  It tries to do too much and lost too much of its exclusivity with open registration outside of colleges.  What differentiates facebook from a telephone number?  A telephone number does not waste your time by sucking you into the lives of all the people in your yellow pages, facebook can.  I knew it was doomed when this guy in his 30s, a professional limo driver, had facebook, the same website I was joining in 2006 before starting engineering college.
 
Sites like linkedin, twitter, and even this one are better long term products.  They have an exact purpose or a niche audience that comes back for more.  If the sites try to do too much, they will lose their original purpose, maybe the owners will get rich quick, but the long term product will be faulty.
 
Think of GM, it used to have so many brands and it did too much.  Eventually, GM downsized and stuck to a smaller number of brands.  Railroads used to own hotels, ships, ports, now they are focused, agile, long term value businesses.  The bosses of GM and the railroads, like Zuckerberg, always cashed out.  Whether their product was healthy long term or not is another question.

Eventually, yeah. Just like with what happened to Myspace, eventually something bigger and better will catch on. However, I don't see it happening anytime soon. I imagine facebook is going to have smooth sailing for at least 5 more years.

No it will stay strong like Myspace.....oh wait.

At first I thought it would but seeing how it is now...  I hardly think so. It's an easy way to keep in contact with friends/family you don't get to see as much so I can see this thing going on for a very long time. It has other things that I have kept people oddly addicted to it so I don't see facebook fading away anytime soon.

Once Zuckerberg flips the switch that makes everything you've ever done on Facebook public to all, thus causing mass hysteria to society at large as people realize how creepy everyone else really is, then yeah it may lose some of it's luster.

" I don't know, I remember thinkin myspace was going to be around forver, and look what happened there, Facebook kinda murdered it.  Although I still like myspace for band music news... "

" Of course it will. It's a fucking website, how long do they generally stay? Not more than a few years "

Eventually yes, but until a new format comes along, I doubt it. It's the best experience out there and will probably continue to be so for a long time to come. I'd much rather a good service stick around so that I don't have to use a new social networking site every 3 years. And I like the lack of obnoxious ads on Facebook. Any other equivalent is almost certain to use the myspace tactic of shoving gaudy, hideous, irrelevant ads down our throats. Facebook sticks to text ads that aren't overly intrusive (unless you use those stupid apps, but if you use those, you're the kind of idiot that deserves a page full of unhealthy links), and I greatly appreciate that. Plus, everyone uses it so until someone comes out with something sexier and manages to take that monopoly away, Facebook will just slowly grow and grow and grow.