I expect it will level out at over 1 billion more than enough to
be number one for a very long time i guess. No one yet has
replace microsoft!!!

I believe Facebook will continue to grow and expand. Facebook’s online popularity may also surpass Google in the future. According to Compete.com, Facebook received 132,040,907 unique visitors in March 2010 and Google received 146,954,711 unique visitors during the same month.

You can’t stop the bubble gum group, thats where the cash is. I left facebook a couple of months ago, couldn’t take the crap. It’s for kids.

Any company can be “Dethroned” or go broke.
Look at multi-billion dollar corporations like GM, etc. However, that pales in comparison to say, the U.S. going broke for trillions and trillions and… you get the picture.

I wont even elaborate on the fact that yahoo, the original and older search engine used to be number one. But again, were talking about a ‘SOCIAL SITE” not a search engine, so it means nothing in regards to Facebooks “Unique Visiters” means nothing. Put annother way,… there are some sites that have the same amounts of traffic, and unique stats. In fact, much higher, and while I wont tell you the sites, I will tell you that they are are porn sites. Gee, maybe they should try to give google a run for their money huh?

People dont understand its the type and quality of the traffic.
So 1 Billion uniques huh. Who gives a shit really, they might mean something if they made some money.

I certainly wouldn’t be bold enough to say that Facebook will win out over some new improved version of social networking.

Thats what makes the world go round in business. Good healthy competition.

I wonder if Google is going do something about Facebook? haha and what can they do but they will have to come up with something, cause if Facebook starts implemented a adsense similar product well then what do you know.

Any ways lets see but I believe Facebook will stay at the top.

At this moment, this article is FB liked 16 times, buzzed 5 times, and retweeted 151 times. What does that tell you?

I am discusted with face book. They banned my website because they saw me as a threat to their system.
I believe in watertight security when it comes to dating and social networking sites should meet that challenge, insisting on full I’d checks for membership.

They indirectly support paedophiles for one reason – quicker growth is revenue.
They punish those who can see this realty by banning them, even if they have the highest moral and business standards.

Steve
Romantic Adventures

I don’t think it’s a good thing when a online service affects the offline life. Seven more days and im gone forever from Facebook. It feels much better to be without it, almost like it has been som kind of virus in my life that constantly wanted my attention

As long as facebook is FREE, it will continue to draw in users and those users will begin to spend more and more of their time on facebook. The format is correct, allowing friends to find one another, email and comment on one another’s posts easily with notifications in emails. Mainly, it took a stance of being compatible with all formats, Google and Microsoft, Apple and Linux. It is accessible by all Internet carriers.

Facebook is building the Internet network of the future with this many users, requiring huge infrastructure and storage. It does not need to be profitable if it is building the network infrastructure of broadband. This in turn allows companies to combine with facebook and share network resources, decreasing infrastructure costs for everyone.

As facebook expands into advanced search functions for users to find information and most importantly, video phone integration for full motion interactivity between users, it could grow into the way people live online. Theoretically, this can expand into mobility and even brain interfaces at a later stage.

It has also become an extremely important source of news and investigative journalism and video’s. This in turn leads to a more informed public and government, which can take advantage of millions of of instances of open source information. It can affect public opinion and decision makers as consensus develops on issues as a result. It can be a force for truth in the world, as anyone who has intelligent and well informed friends to debate with, knows all too well.

The most important part of facebook is it’s ability to allow the individual to make choices…about what they post, who they chose to friend and most importantly…a way to dismiss friends and block unwanted access by people.

It is user centric and tolerating of much diversity in the world. This is why there is no stopping facebook. The most important part about it is nothing is ever erased, like Google, and so information will remain until the end of time. You are what you say you are on facebook, not what others say you are.

It might even stop disinformation warfare, used to frame and incarcerate people, with hearsay. It is the best thing that has ever happened to sociology and what the Internet was envisioned for… a way for everyone to communicate with people of their choice at a time of their choosing, anywhere in the world. It can tear down social barriers and unite the world in new ways.

More power to facebook! They are going to need power plants and their own satellites soon, so hopefully those who benefit from it the most will jump on board the facebook bandwagon.

Betty White had it right when she quipped recently on Saturday Night Live that Facebook seems to be a big waste of time. I finally got a Facebook account for business reasons and I just seem to see a lot of useless information posted on my wall by my friends. Why does everyone think anyone else cares that they just brushed their teeth (unless they never brush their teeth and this is a major first step toward their hygiene) or that they think the guy they are sitting next to is hot! or that they just finished checking out at the grocery store. I don’t need all this constant reporting on mindless, useless facets of one’s daily life. I want to know the sort of things you tell me about in an email or a letter or a phone call. If that is what I saw on my wall, I would have something worth reading. I think Facebook could easily be replaced but is the population ready to stop sharing the details of their latest fart to actually go to something useful? That is the real question we need the answer to. I guess that makes me a social networking fart. And proud of it!

To say Facebook cannot be replaced would be utterly foolish. Anything can be replaced and eventually is. The way I see it there are a couple of issues that will eventually need to be resolved for it to continue.
1. Security – I see more viruses/worms on Facebook through the so called “Hey you oughta see what we caught you doing…YouTube Videos” that are fronts for anti-virus software promoters. Several people have said that they get a deaf ear from facebook on that issue citing that it is their responsibility. Not sure I agree with that reply.
2. Paid service – most people will NOT pay a monthly fee to get swamped with ads. Facebook is a marketers dream come true. You can set your ads to run based on any combination of profile modifiers you want and only extremely targeted audiences will ever see them. It is a literal pot of gold. Make the marketer pay higher rates for advertising. They will do it because they know they will still get great conversions.
3. There are a few more items people complain about but as the size of the Facebook community continues to grow, this one will eventuallyget rid of more people than anything else. We are in the generation of “NOW”. I want it now and I want it fast. Look at all of the millions of smartphone users today. Facebook has grown so large so fast they haven’t come close to keeping up with the traffic load. It was a little slow a couple years ago but today it is like molasses in the middle of January. Instant conversation if fine but only if it truly is instant. They need to work on the server speed very soon.

I like going on for business and for social reasons. But the idea fo getting hit by show stopping virusware, paying a service charge to login and snail speeds are things that will eventually drive me away for sure, I imagine others as well.
Thanks for your ear!

Facebook betrayed the trust of its users by not being up-front about the information being collected and how it was being used. Users are generally naive and when something is free they figure they have nothing to lose. The fact is that there can be much to lose.

There have already been cases of people applying for jobs and being turned down, not because of the contents of their Resume, but because of some party photos on Facebook. The young are trusting and don’t necessarily understand the reasons why something like FB exists in the first place. (Clue: it is not to provide a useful service for users…)

As the user base becomes older and more experienced they will realise that the “benefits” of FB membership are marginal and there are many alternative (and arguably better…) ways to keep in touch.

It isn’t about a “contest” between FB and alternatives; it is about whether FB can be trusted with your personal data.

It has demonstrated that it can’t be and for many people that will be reason enough to cancel subscription.

In the same way that people filter the friends they have and become aware of who’s a gossip and who can be trusted, social networks like FB will be evaluated. It isn’t the “only game in town”.

On that basis alone its demise is assured (unless some huge changes are made and it is seen to be better.)

I’d give it 10 years.

I don’t get it.
All these social networking sites and Facebook is the leader by a long shot. Obviously it offers people what they want so they use it.
Then you get this vocal minority moaning about privacy and whatever else they can fault. I bet they are the same people who protest against swearing on television and short skirts.
Get over it, people. You are responsible for yourself, not everyone else, so keep your bitching to a minimum, please.
Whatever replaces Facebook will have flaws too, you can be sure of that, so keep those complaints to yourself too.