Facebook or the Writing is on the Wall

Last year I read an article in a local newspaper called ‘Time to unplug from Facebook’.

That made me thinking of setting up an antifacebook site, even if it wouldn’t be named like that.

However, no circle of friends, no chat (there are some good programs out there), no 3rd applications, no walls, no inbox (there is yahoo, gmail, etc.), no groups, and many other no's, only the friends and a diary.

Have it as simple as possible with the main purpose to keep in touch with the friends and the second one as important as the main one not to become addicted.

However, I am sure someone is working on this site at this very moment.

I venture to make a prediction: Facebook will go the way of MySpace in fewer than 3 years.

And what I read some time ago:

We will move on, just as we did from the chat rooms of AOL, without even looking back. When the place is as ethereal as a website, our allegiance is much more abstract than it is to a local pub or gym. We don't live there, we don't know the owner, and we are all the more ready to be incensed by the latest change to a privacy policy, or to learn that every one of our social connections has been sold to the highest corporate bidder.

So it's not that MySpace lost and Facebook won. It's that MySpace won first, and Facebook won next. They'll go down in the same order. 
Full article Facebook hype will fade .

And today other article The trouble with Facebook

However according to Inside Facebook, which tracks the site's popularity, there were 100,000 fewer British users in May while over 7 million users ditched their accounts in USA and Canada - the first time the number of users of the site has actually diminished in these countries.

When you're talking about 670 million users worldwide it sounds a bit like a drop in the ocean but CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be wary of this becoming a trend. Trends are what all Internet businesses are built on, after all. While it's too early to tell whether Facebook has peaked in terms of user-base just yet it's clear in my mind that the site has peaked in terms of interest.

Other good reading (the comments too) Facefacts

It is about time I started my social site; the avalanche will start and nothing will be able to stop it (i.e. the demise of Facebook).