I can't help but still wonder if Facebook's place is set in stone or if it's slowly losing relevance as more and more people become wary of social media and tech companies in general.
Whatever supplants facebook will not look anything like a social network today. If it were as simple as building a platform and throwing a bunch of users at it, Google+ would have worked.
Facebook won because it mapped the real world's social graph onto a virtual social graph. If a product is to take Facebook's throne, it will need a similar hook. Beyond that, it will likely also need to position itself as the "anti" facebook - no tracking, no data collection, etc.
I saw something posted here a few months ago called 'Scuttlebutt'. What about that? The founder is definitely positioning it as the anti-facebook and himself as the anti-Zuck.
I agree with you there, I think that is why all the other challengers have failed. None could create an equal social graph or off anything good enough to make people want to leave.
By now though, it may be the case that people don't want to join anything new because of losing 'memories' and fear of missing out.
Yep. Same goes with whatever supplants any other social media site too. The next Twitter won't be a simple Twitter clone, and the next Reddit won't be a simple Reddit clone.
It'll be what makes the entire point of the original service completely obsolete.
I don't know, Amazon has disrupted retail from the ground up but is starting to spread. I think they could take a crack at it and get further than Google+ did.
It's all speculation though. We can rule Microsoft out.
They don't need a social network to gather data. They already know what you're buying. (I take it that Facebook competitor would be someone who could offer a similar service to people who want to sell goods although that's probably not what OP was implying)
Facebook won because it mapped the real world's social graph onto a virtual social graph. If a product is to take Facebook's throne, it will need a similar hook. Beyond that, it will likely also need to position itself as the "anti" facebook - no tracking, no data collection, etc.