Ask HN: Where do you expect Facebook to be in 5 years?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2559199

by solipsist • 15 years ago

7 17 15 years ago

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Make predictions like this one (from 4 years ago): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12991

JoeCortopassi• 15 years ago

Closer to being Myspace than Google

justatdotin• 15 years ago

gone.

MenaMena123• 15 years ago

Like anything it has its high time and people just get tired of things and move to the next best thing.

vicngtor• 15 years ago

I dun think it will go. It will be an essential part of our lives (just like google now), but it definitely won't receive so much hype.

When Facebook IPOs in the near future, lots of talent will leave to pursue other lucrative opportunities.

daimyoyo• 15 years ago

The Winklevii will be suing Facebook from the ICC in The Hague.

huuleon• 15 years ago

They will reach maturity

nametoremember• 15 years ago

I'd say the mobile Facebook app or site will be improved a lot. Messages will be used instead of texting in a lot of cases. It will have video chat integrated.

Search will be better too.

ppjim• 15 years ago

A bank company

tony_landis• 15 years ago

I think they will still have a solid userbase, but will be far less hyped.

veb• 15 years ago

Showering us with augmented reality contact-lenses so we'll be able to see geolocation-facebook. I.e. look out the window of my office and see conversations between people and join in if I must.

Wait. Facebook isn't that awesome. :)

abbasmehdi2• 15 years ago

That’s totally awesome! But not sure if I want to be on the receiving end of that.

gallerytungsten• 15 years ago

Somewhere in-between where AOL and MySpace are today.

jhowell• 15 years ago

Facebook will be around, but where will the data be?

wmboy• 15 years ago

As Google has become THE search engine, Facebook will be THE social networking site (which it already is). I don't think it will get bigger than being a social networking tool, and on the other end of the scale I highly doubt it will end up like MySpace...

abbasmehdi2• 15 years ago

It will merge with the gov't - your ID/DL and FB will be closely related, it will enter many verticals (e.g. compete with LinkedIn in the professional networking space), it will seek to impact more deeply by blurring the line between virtual and real life, it will start selling discount stuff (like Groupon) to kids. It will basically become the MS of web 2.0

But then again, I have no idea! :)

beatpanda• 15 years ago

Dead, hopefully.

jeffool• 15 years ago

Having finally incorporated email for all users, in five years time, they'll finally be bothering with voice chat. And all its users will think Facebook invented the idea.

Ask HN: Where do you expect Facebook to be in 5 years?

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