Originally Posted by minicivan

There is something else thats changing. The cost of leaving for everyone increases daily. Your friends, your connections, your coworkers, your 500 photo galleries, your 500 video galleries, farmville, mafia wars, all your other fan pages and groups etc are not portable. There is a cost to leaving facebook that grows practically each time someone logs in and uses it.

I understand what you are saying, but people need to recognize that these sites are also developing and evolving every bit as fast as the web is and giving people what they want and more as they do it.

I wouldn't bet my money on "facebook" being displaced anymore than I would bet on Google being displaced.

You are also wrong about Yahoo. In fact, you made a comment that was completely fabricated. 96-98 had dozens of big search engines all competing for the same eyes. Since that time 3, have emerged the victors and at the same time, total users online has grown exponentially. They have done nothing but grow over the last decade (as incompetent as they might be).