Subscribe to RSSWill Facebook slip into the past tense too?
Right now, there is a collective presumption that Facebook is forever.
The same sentiment existed at various times in the past for many other Internet applications and services - many of which we now refer to in the past tense.
Will Facebook be any different?
And there were things that pre-dated the Internet that were thought of in the same “everlasting” terms - things that were superceded by the Internet itself, like Genie, Compuserve, Prodigy, and the pre-Internet “America Online” service. Some, like AOL, evolved; others didn’t.
Is Facebook really the last “next big thing” as a lot of people seem to suggest - or is it just another “next big thing” in a long line of “next big things” to be replaced by the next “next big thing”?
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exceptional Feb 17, 2008 - 09:02:29Do you have an opinion on Second Life and it’s potential staying power ?