The great thing about any technology is that it’s obsolete. Right from the start, it has an expiration date. We don’t know the date, their creators don’t know the date, heck’ the stock brokers would pay a lot to find it out. It might be in a 1 year, 10 years or 20 years. It might not even be in our lifetime, but you can be sure that somewhere in some corner of the world there is lurking the next big thing, the next innovative idea. That’s great about technology, innovation is always possible.
So, we are using now Facebook, myself more than i expected a few months ago, but i am sure that somewhere in the future someone will come with a even better concept that we haven’t yet imagined. I for one, have already found some issues with the current Facebook concept. My number of friends grow with 20% in the past two months and at the current pace it will double by the end of the year. Towards the end of our life we might end with 10k “friends”. That poses an immediate problem, i will not be able to follow them all and any online social interaction with them will decrease and as well their online interaction with me and hence all the social aspect. I am not using games on FB, so i don’t have any other motivation. I was wise enough to start using lists to categories “friends” but who can do this when they hit bottom rock with more than 500+ friends? Unless FB improves fast the Behaviour tracking we will max out our possibility of interaction.
…and that’s the least of the problem for FB. They have 400 million users on FB and that’s impressive but myself, i have already setup an “expiration date” on my FB usage due to other ideas for my daily life. So, what’s your expiration date on Facebook? When you will stop using Facebook?
