> Will it become uncool, unpopular. Will popular focus shift to some new shiny thing.
It seems to me that it already has, and that this hasn't mattered. The world only needs one "boring public-face social network", and that's Facebook.
Teenagers will use Tumblr or Snapchat or Instagram or whatever else to get laid. But they'll send friend requests to their actual real-life friends—the ones they don't want to expose their online self to—on Facebook. Because that's what you do.
It's a niche, sort of like how business cards still exist despite the ability to email contact information around.
It seems to me that it already has, and that this hasn't mattered. The world only needs one "boring public-face social network", and that's Facebook.
Teenagers will use Tumblr or Snapchat or Instagram or whatever else to get laid. But they'll send friend requests to their actual real-life friends—the ones they don't want to expose their online self to—on Facebook. Because that's what you do.
It's a niche, sort of like how business cards still exist despite the ability to email contact information around.