via steverubel.com
[...]But something bigger is going on here...Facebook is eating the web.Yes, Facebook is becoming the web for millions and millions of people. As I have written before, there's already a wealth of amazing things you can do within the site without ever leaving. What's more, as I also speculated, the site giving rise to headless media companies like Zynga that don't need a web site to succeed.In short, I believe Facebook is unstoppable. They aren't just the next Google. They're the next web.Here's where I see things shaping up from here.
[...]very interesting discussion in the comments:[...]Nicely put but Facebook isn't ever going to eat the web for 2 reasons:
1. When it IPOs, all the creative talent and great strategic thinking will drain right out of the organisation.
2. People are fleeting and fickle and as soon as all the youngsters get too sick of their parents stalking them they will be off to something new.
3. The future of the social web is distributed and shared, not centralised and controlled.[...]
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