Facebook is Dying

[gregpurtell]

http://socialmediatoday.com/richard-conyard/655306/facebook-dying

[quattrofan]

I couldn't finish reading that, it was so badly written.

[pferde → quattrofan]

I finished reading it, in the same way one finishes watching a hilariously bad movie. :) It was all just grand rhetorics and little substance, to the very end.

[ummjackson → quattrofan]

I couldn't either. Read as if it was written in another language, translated to English and then someone went to town on a thesaurus with it.

[realize → quattrofan]

Yes, I gave up at "dichotomously opposed".

[markyc → quattrofan]

linkbait isn't what it used to be

[spaghetti]

Wonder if the article was auto-generated? "turnover and profits are down..." so at least turnover is down which sounds like it's actually good for the "once gargantuan beast".

[r00fus → spaghetti]

Turnover is a trading term: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/turnover.asp

[the_gipsy]

Headline should have been "Is facebook dying?"

[klez → the_gipsy]

So the answer would have been 'no'?

[the_gipsy → klez]

Sorry, I was referencing Betteridge's Law of Headlines which states that "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines

[klez → the_gipsy]

Actually I was referencing that too.

[tsahyt → klez]

In the long run the answer will be yes.

[grailholder → tsahyt]

That's obviously true, I think the question at hand is about how much longer its run will last.

[tsahyt → grailholder]

Yes I agree, I was really stating the obvious here.

It depends on what you define as the "death" of Facebook. When it is no longer a profitable business whatsoever, or when they've lost the majority of their users.