I think facebook failed to diversify itself. It stagnated. No local events, no job searching, no tools or ways to search for new people to meet like meetup, no true dating functionality (and god knows there would be a lot of potential).
To make things worse, there were many stories that tainted facebook reputations: the ad system, the privacy settings, the first suspicions of CIA links, and then the Snowden leaks.
It's no surprise. I'm still amazed there are people actually complaining about google+ and making fun of it.
Zuckerberg is not even leading it like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or Google founders would.
Facebook is just a startup success story, but that ends here. It makes money, people use it like an easy-to-use internet forum and chat applications, but it's as much social as everything else that existed before it. It's just user friendly, and money making.
While that may have never been an explicit feature, I remember the events interface (circa the 2008 timeframe, if I recall correctly) doing a fairly good job of allowing you to find local events. It was my goto place to discover things to do for a while. Then they changed the behaviour, making them virtually impossible to find unless your friends were invited.
To make things worse, there were many stories that tainted facebook reputations: the ad system, the privacy settings, the first suspicions of CIA links, and then the Snowden leaks.
It's no surprise. I'm still amazed there are people actually complaining about google+ and making fun of it.
Zuckerberg is not even leading it like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or Google founders would.
Facebook is just a startup success story, but that ends here. It makes money, people use it like an easy-to-use internet forum and chat applications, but it's as much social as everything else that existed before it. It's just user friendly, and money making.