Facebook IPO Designed To Trick Amateurs?

mr_fishbulb

Radiantsoul wrote: »

The barriers are as much social as technological. There are lots of people who dislike Facebook for various reasons, but they tend to be stuck as that is where their friends are. Google Plus is struggling with this fact.

Yeah I agree with that. there is some stickyness with Facebook in the fact that there is nothing drastically different on offer. But also there are a lot of people on there who wouldn't want to change to something new (my mum for example).

Radiantsoul

dealer_wins wrote: »

Facebook will come falling down sooner than later IMO.

Once the yoof start using something different and more trendy, the whole house of cards will fall in.

Facebook is not just a tool of the young though.

A new site would need to offer quite a lot to beat it. There are of course other social network sites - twitter and pinterest, but Facebook is better monetised and offers far more services.

Facebooks greatest weakness is in the mobile arena, it is possible it could be leapfrogged.