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By the way, did anyone take notice that Facebook has now been known broadly for 10 years already?
Sure it's lasted longer than Myspace, after the time of the big hype... And sure this came less expected than it turned out in the reality. As all things that get hyped for some time eventually fall to dust again and get forgotten.
After all the privacy scandals and the revelations about collecting data (never really deleting something you posted), this is quite a bit of miracle - but, maybe, the key here more lies with "there is no alternative offering to theirs". If you wanna head off somewhere else and receive about the same supply, there is none. Nobody's managed to build up something else until today with about the same reach like them who doesn't have this as his behind-the-scenes business model.
So, unless they really make some decisive mistakes in their business policy, count on it being another decade with them. But this second decade you can put under a very strong screening, as making something last for 20 years in the internet really is a feat...

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Date: 28 October 2018 06:01 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] poliphilo
I understand younger people don't use FB much (they prefer Instagram) so I guess its grip is already slackening.

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Date: 28 October 2018 02:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] benicek.livejournal.com
As I get older (46) I'm experiencing the commonly-reported illusion that time is passing quicker. Events in my adult life that happened decades ago still feel recent. No surprise there. What is strange is that the big exception to this is the internet and social media. It just feels like we've always had it. Ten years of Facebook? It feels like half a century.

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Date: 30 October 2018 10:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cecille-abril.livejournal.com
I still miss that old MySpace, my first social net where I got to know so many people from over the world! One day they migrated to Facebook and I refused to follow... I've got an account there later, but never could get used to it. Just don't like it with all its commercials, imposing "friends", poor functioning...
Sad.

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