facebook is death !

not sure if what'sapp is the death of facebook. Sure, teens might not like it as much when their parents there, but FB has a different concept in mind, with mature users.

all over the world there are a lot of Facebook users leaving FaceBook everyday for different reasons. but it still grows daily. There are a lot of Social networks around but FaceBook seem to dominate them. Google + seems to be growing too but just like any other network, some sign up some close accounts, some are dormant.

but your right about the ads

Facebook is dead. Twitter, Pinterest and Youtube are dead. SEO is dead, and so is article marketing, service providing, and business as a whole.

Dead dead die die die.

*Sigh*

Nope Facebook will not die. The whole process is a loop, old users will leave Facebook and on the other hand new users will sign up.

I had a FB and Twitter account - didn't like it much. But lots of young folks love social media including big brother.

used to be addicted to facebook before because of games and to get in touch with my old friends, but now when i check it i don't stay too long in facebook

I think everything dies at least a dozen times a year. When Facebook is no longer on the internet then I will know facebook died, untill then the millions and millions of people on there will just have to keep posting.

I Think for every 1000 users leaving FB, many more are joining it daily. So it's not dying for sure. Yes timeline and ads create a nuisance but still it isn't going anywhere soon.

yes I dont stay as much time in fb like I did before

Well I used to provide Fan page design in Fiverr and for the last 2 months there is drastic decrease in orders. I have designed some 140 fan pages in Fiverr.

So yeah...the value of FB may have decreased and this just happened after the IPO stuff.

FB dead?... I don't think so, there are many countries that are active and consistently growing in FB; besides if FB dies surely people will migrate to another social networking site and there is where we move...

FB is about networking and finding "friends", even with all the changes it's still going to keep growing.

I don't believe facebook is dying at all. If all of the teenagers started using a new platform to avoid their parents and grandparents, they would probably still use facebook a little bit to hide the fact that they are using something else for their REAL communication with their friends. Yep, I raised a couple of kids I did it SUCCESSFULLY I might add! They have both become productive, self supporting adults.

Getting back on track...Even if these teens didn't ever use facebook again, their parents would, because the parents have their own friends there as well. People hate the new timeline, but I believe that if facebook starts losing too many people over it, they will make another change, and continue to make changes until they get people rolling back in again. It's the nature of the beast (if the beast wants to survive).

Maybe, but there is a large number of new users of different categories signing up daily. Each one has their own purpose to use facebook. So, demise of facebook will not happen that shortly

There must at least 1 "Facebook dead/dying" thread every week.

James Scholes

Maybe this why I don't really understand internet marketing because I never notice ads at all unless they keep me from reading the content I want and guess what, when they do, I can't click "back" button fast enough no matter how interesting the content was that I wanted to see. I am talking about the pop ups, the "fill this out and emails submits" and then i win a free laptop or whatever. I guess that is why I have a hard time beleiving in alot of this. who really beleives by clicking on ads and putting a zip in, that you are going to get a free ipad or laptop.

At least on facebook which I am on multiple times a day, the ads are small and off to the side, I never have thought in 1 million log ons to click them at all.

I highly doubt Facebook will die!

It has over 800 million users, they aren't all going to suddenly cancel their accounts!

To be honest, I genuinely don't mind the adverts, I respect them because I respect the fact that we are able to use services like Facebook for free!

Would you prefer a few ads on the side of the page, or to have to pay for Facebook?

I'm sure 99.9% of people would choose the former!

Facebook isn't for everyone. I think a lot of people sign up and then realize it isn't really their cup of tea so they either cancel their account or just don't use it.

But, there are a lot of people that love Facebook and use it every day and I think those people will always be on there unless something similar (but better) comes along.

If Facebook dies I'll probably be resigned to sitting in front of the TV for the rest of my life eating bon bons and watching an endless loop of The Wizard Of Oz. After all, what else would there be to do? :rolleyes:

There's no place like home... There's no place like home... There's no place like home...

Facebook has become a part of the daily life for a large number of people. And it is getting bigger every day. Now days being on the Facebook has become the fashion.
But I believe that it is a very big cause of time wastage for people. It is most of the time used for spreading rumors too. So it is necessary that Facebook should die .

Yeap, both my parents signed up for Facebook recently, it feels a bit weird (and yes, I am 20).

I heard the same things about myspace in the day and it was simply not true, just look at myspace now, it rocks lol.

10000 is a small number to facebook, but I don't agree I think it's getting beter and better, it's the facebook fashion.

It will be awhile til a media monster overtakes FB. It is simple, and provides the functionality users want - to stock each other!

As long facebook is free most people will stay. I use facebook daily and I will as long as possible.
Reasons:
- I have uploaded and commented pictures from the vacations the last 5 years.
- It is a good way for me to be reminded of birthdays.
- Lots of invitations is sent only on facebook (birthdays, parties, etc.)

I'm using facebook approx. 10 minutes or less per day and I never play in there. Just using the power of great communicatioin

We're all going to die.

No, Facebook is not dead. And it's WhatsApp not, what's up.

They are a very different tools. WhatsApp is simply an instant messaging platform whereas Facebook is a Social Media platform.

Both have different purposes and you cannot compare orange to apples let alone saying that people don't eat orange anymore because there're apples.

Facebook isn't dead - just yet, anyways. In my opinion, it's probably got a couple of years left in it.

There are a few things people don't agree with - timeline, for example, and the newly coming change of showing who has viewed your profile (ie, the removal of anonymous stalking).

I worked, professionally, developing games for facebook. This year, a Facebook-based game won a Bafta. That's a pretty big deal. It goes to show that the platform has opened up in ways that'll let new users enjoy the platform in ways that they haven't been able to.

I was invited to one of the facebook headquarters earlier this year - they've definitely got some plans to keep people attracted to it.

I think the stats are, on average, each user visits facebook 4 times a day. Each visit is (again, on average), 15 minutes in length. An hour a day from each visitor is a pretty big number - but more so when you consider the sheer amount of people that use the site.

The truth is, people leave and people join. That'll keep happening for a while yet.

It is not don't you see how many people live there?
Perhaps It's getting bigger and bigger every minute goes by.

people can understand now that ... facebook just taking benefit from People's time. Lot of ads and recently changed timeline. so though 1st time people found an environment about the sociability but now it's become commercial... like some one build a house in a open space but one day another one build another house and after that another one and after that another one... so after some days there is a gathering. So people who build the house 1st time ... he just loose interest from that place and finding another place to build a new house...

Actually human being it's self don't like gathering or sharing or contributing ... It's the nature or necessity which make human bound to do the things and otherwise human likes to live alone.....

What you think ??

Facebook will die or be on its death bed at some point down in the future
but Facebook won't die no time soon. Most people will say Myspace is DEAD but it is still in the top 200 websites in the world.

Facebook is definitely NOT dead or dying...of course you will have users leaving daily but at the same time you have new users signing up. This happens with any business.

- Ahmad

It reminds me of DIGG in a way. Face book is dead, but some fool forgot to bury it, so it is stinking up the place now. Please get your shovels out and start DIGGin - love the pun.

Facebook is like any other huge corporate beast... To big to fail ;-)

Any "maturing" business will move from a stage in the life-cycle of acquisition, acquisition, acquisition to one where people start to tire of the product and churn. The difference with Facebook is not that retention is done by the business, but more by the fact that people's lives become so intertwined with the product it's difficult to leave - want an example of how to talk people out of leaving your product / site then just go through the motion of trying to shut down your Facebook account. Many websites could learn a lot!

So yes people are leaving, but there are plenty coming behind to back-fill. And is there really a viable alternative out there?

Once critical mass hits then things must split/change, Facebook did not do that very well, they simply adapted. We see this is stocks all the time, supply and demand needs to be in balance, this is the fight, this is what needs and will happen regardless what we all think. Facebook was never designed to be what it is today. It's been re-purposed by it's creator and the users. If the creator is going to go in a different direction then the users, then an epic fail awaits. Look at Facebook, are they inline with what the majority of their users want. If supply and demand are not working toward each other consistently, then yes Facebook like anything else will degrade overtime.

facebook dead? i doubt this will happen, so many people are using it worldwide with many advertisers.

I'm thinking about leaving facebook myself... too many ex-girlfriends that wanna get back with me. My girlfriend gives me the "evil eye" whenever i go on that site lol

And who really cares if pimple heads surf at other sites then FB?

Sorry for those under age, I just have another target group.

G.

Teens don't have money. Therefore, teens shouldn't be much of interest for internet marketers. Go after people with money.

Facebook isn't going anywhere anytime soon. There is simply no other service in the market that can compete right now.

Ohhh noooooosssss the sky is falling.

Get a life instead.

FB is far from death, if what you said is true, not to forget there are still many more join in each new day, so FB will thrive on forever, that's my 2 cents

I also don't spend much time to open Facebook these time, maybe just around 10 minutes to check the notifications and then sign out.

For me, Facebook will not die anytime soon. As far as I know, there still many of people in Indonesia (and perhaps another country) that love open Facebook, spend the whole day to chat and share anything on Facebook and if there is an interesting ads they will happily open it but not sure if they will buy it lol.

I don't think facebook will doe that easily. It's true that some may go but surely another will come to sign up.. Also facebook is one of the best way to communicate with your loved ones especially those who are away from their families..Communication with old friends, etc..So i guess it will stay they for a long time..

I started a membership site this year. I'm kinda pleased with its associated FB page, and it's proving a good place to interact with my members. I prefer it to Twitter.

FB is going to be very hard to monetise. Their share price is lofty. Yet they're profitable, and they've built a brand of the size of McDonalds in less than 10 years.

I should try FB ads as at least their demographic information is better than Google's (which truly sucks, despite all those PhD's).

The popularity of Facebook is even growing as more and more people are coming and enjoying the service. Many people do not like timeline that does not mean that they are leaving Facebook. No need to be happy (or tensed!) regarding the future of Facebook. It will stay in top for many years, I believe as new generations are more attracted with Facebook and when they get a social group, there is no reason to leave that.

Facebook can never die as the increasing number of ads is a proof that more and more people are getting into social media promotions. Facebook still leads compared to other social media sites and still have a remarkable lead in terms of everyday posts. The timeline and ads are a demotivating factor making it all the more complicated but Facebook still has that old charm left with majority of the Facebook users.

wow....almost everyone here think FB is going strong. For sure the guys are having ideas on how to keep thinghs up and not loose too many fans., but i guess FB is on need of money right now and they will try to monetize the more they can ...and maybe is going to hurt someone feelings in the long run .Personally i hate timeline .
Thank you for sharing
Frank Moreno
Ps some experts are of a different opinion ( short live to FB )

Facebook not going anywhere for a long time and if what ever you are promoting holds value to others or is in demand you should not have to much of a problem getting results unless your selling video games then maybe you have a issue with the younger crowd leaving.

But Just a FYI all your marketing campaigns should not just be about facebook in the first place so it should not matter who comes and goes it happens to every social network and when some networks take a flop (like a myspace) their will always be another to take its place but if you put all your eggs in one basket and it drops.... Then you risk losing all your time and effort and possibly money for being limited with your marketing campaigns.

Obviously nothing last forever, but it's hard to say that facebook will be dead anytime soon.. google+ can do some competition but still..

I think facebook is far to personal and probing. Its strange that people stoped using programs like myspace because of the lack of features. However, i think people have started growing sick of people knowing every intermet detail about a persons life and are moving back to programs like that. I closed my facebook account and felt good doing it. Sadly enough facebook has become one of those programs that people hate to use, but use it because they dont know what else to use.

If Facebook were to be a country, it will be the 3rd largest in term of populations, after China and India.

No, Facebook is never dead.Facebook is the most popular social website.But at present everything is commercial where ad is posted. I think new timeline change is boring.
At present world Facebook is the biggest marketing place.Besides leaving Facebook is his own reason. So Facebook will never die. Thanks

For starters you can never really leave Facebook anyway. You can remove your profile, but your info is always stored in their database.

So if you do de-activate but sign in again you will automatically be re-activated like you never left.

Why do they do this? I'm not 100% sure but I think they thought ahead early on and realized that at some point people will want to leave the network, but later decide to re join.

...And this is exactly what happens very often.

So NO it will never be dead because new people join all the time, and most of the time older members re-activate their accounts and start using it again. Zuckerberg is a genius!

Well, Facebook's GROWTH is slowing, but it's still growing very nicely...

UP from 901 million users worldwide in April to 955 million.

Source: New York Times, July 26: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/te...ectations.html

To me, that looks like quite a few people for marketers to target.

First of all, Allan, it's great to see you here. The last
I heard, you were near death.(Yes, that was a while ago!)

My question to the rest of the forum...

"What's the big deal with the timeline?"

Michael

The good thing is we don't market to teens. Good riddance.

Everything is fun and exciting at first but after a while, it loses that new "feel"

It's like anything. If you had a brand new Ferrari, and you've never driven one before, you'd be driving it as much as possible. After a while the "newness" wears off. That's why billionaires have a crap load of different cars. Facebook or any social media site is the same.

It was new and exciting in the beginning but after having seen enough status updates of "I'm eating chicken with corn bread" or all the hot models wanting to be my friends (I did get a bit suspicious after seeing how many other guys they were being friends with and wasting all that time working on my six packs to impress them ), it just loses its excitement. People get bored and move onto something else and some new people will replace them.

No death, dying, disintegration, explosions or being cut in a million pieces with a life saber, just good ol' human nature.

Today they gave the numbers and said they had 955 million users, up 30 percent from last year. 1/7th of the worlds population.

Might just be me but that seems like it's far from the death of facebook.

The fact is once you have got nearly everyone in your target market it will eventually slow down.

what about the number of people have new account facebook? I think it's more than 10,000

I really don't think Facebook is dying...

The threats by people "leaving facebook" have been around since the first major change Facebook Rolled out back in it's early years.

People always "leave" facebook, but as long as everyone in their social group is still there, they will just keep coming back.

Facebook is pretty huge now, and even though they might get more annoying with more changes, more advertising, etc etc. There just aren't many better alternatives.

I wish people would leave it for Google +, but that is not going to happen any time soon.

Damn .. there goes my income .. time to learn to play the guitar

Love this site

love this site

According to people, Facebook has been dead since 2010. And guess what, they're still using it. It's definitely not dead... yet.

Come on, G+! Go, go, go!

Till the day Facebook & Twitter will be used as a means of social media marketing, their usage will not lower down as millions are not using it for fun but for getting businesses on daily basis.

Every Business has trends so do these channels have. Without any specific stats or research experience, we can just only predict what is gonna happen next which is really not a truth.

facebook is still no 2. almost all of my friends update status min 5x a day. so it's difficult to death.

Facebook Will never be dead! it's just a small amount

Hi, today news Facebooks lost 1.7 M $ and stocks are dropping , not a very good sign .....in the other hand FB says he reach nearly 1 B contacts lately. Stock market is not so kind to FB . Let's see. ADS they increase bringing more cash to Mr Z.
Somehow interesting story , only the future will tell.

I'm also heard about this.On this moment its carried so much hurts in my heart but it is a exclaimed with joy that fb not dead .I think every news was fake in every year.

Yeah it's a question of afraid and a matter of afraid .
but every parents should take a special care of there child.
They should established a friendly relation with their children,
If it is going on perfectly no problem , Facebook is alive there or dead.

Otherwise if you tell them to give Facebook up ,they will not do it,because teen always goes against law,rule.