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louisgray.com: louisgray.com: For Facebook, I Can Already See the Epilogue

  • Avatar X · 1 week ago
    I bet you also didn't expected MySpace to remain #2 and Friendster to still being chugging along fine.
  • thomaspower · 1 week ago
    Unless they acquire a cellphone network the FB party will come to an end as it is now http://siteanalytics.compete.com/facebook.com/. They have revenue of $10m a week versus Google's $500m a week and they're in second place for traffic. Google's traffic is flat http://siteanalytics.compete.com/google.com/ that's why they're going Microsoft hunting. Hurt them they shall. Remember Gates will be back in the drivers' seat at MS from 2012.
  • Ronald Wopereis · 1 week ago
    hi Louis, don't be hard on your self. Yesterday i followed Bert Hellinger's thought : "What is greatest in human beings is what makes them equal to everybody else. Everything else that deviates higher or lower from what is common to all human beings makes us less. If we know this, we can develop a deep respect for every human being." (source: http://hellinger.langhofer.at/index.php?id=126#...)

    what happened then was, i found out that my problems are in fact a way to connect with people. I learned that having problems and sharing them is an offer to other people to say: "hey, i thought i had problems but now i feel better because you introduce me to your problems.".

    So i started to actually value my problems as something that i could help other people with. By talking about my problems "look i don't need you to solve my problems - instead, i am here to offer you the situation that i am having these problems" i was actually making the other person more happy / less unhappy.

    Not sure yet what my point is.
    Hope this helps.
    Warmest regards, Ron
  • Dennis O'Neil · 1 week ago
    You said "5 years from now" (now = 7/12/07). You still have about 2.5 years left on your prediction. Give it time, it may come true after all.
  • Juliet Robertson · 1 week ago
    I think Facebook is a tool. It's as good or as bad as the person who uses it. I think it will be interesting to see whether it rusts with age, or becomes one of those tools that gets handed through the generations...! I still think it's got a shelf life but I'm in a very niche business where I work with large numbers of people who are reluctant to use the internet more than absolutely necessary and some not even at that. These folk are just beginning to try Facebook. Twitter is incomprehensible to almost all. So FB is a gentle start.

    BTW - great post.
    Juliet