I think you're joking, but to answer seriously: The "end of Facebook" for any klatsch of significant size will most likely come when one or more of two criteria is satisfied:
1. Users don't lose more than they gain by switching away from Facebook -- right now, that's not true of any competitor for most FB users. (MySpace, FourSquare and LinkedIn have specialized audiences that help them survive; Twitter has applications Facebook can't yet match. So people tend to use them in addition to FB.) 2. Other players introduce cross-site social networking, get a critical mass of people interested *and* Facebook stays out of the game. Realistically, though, Facebook will get into that space as soon as it thinks it needs to. (Of course, they could implode tomorrow for some unforeseen reason. But I'm not holding my breath.) As for me and MyOuterSpace...who's got time?! Aside: It seems to me that the majority of SF writers did not foresee the ascension of the attention economy. It's the dominant feature of my life in 2010. It was widely anticipated outside of SF, in "new media", crunchy, and "new economy" circles (to name a few), and has been a staple of mainstream popular writers for a century or more. But in SF the personal bandwidth crunch is usually more conspicuous by its absence. I suppose the favored mindset is to assume it's a solveable problem. (Though I can think of a few who didn't seem that optimistic about it. Farmer, Ballard and Kornbluth spring to mind. I'm sure there are many others.) On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Dave Henn <[email protected]> wrote: > It's actually pretty freakin' cool. It's a little kitschy, as one would > expect from "The Admiral," but I like the idea. More as I delve into it. > http://myouterspace.com/ > > Could it be the end of facebook for spec-fic folks? :-) > > -- > Dave Henn > [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
