How big can one site really get?

[Justin]

According to CNN (http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/08/technol ... /index.htm) and many other news sites, Facebook has become too large to buy.

I for one, believe it. Everyone does Facebook, everyone has a Facebook, and if you don't, your not at the same level as everyone else.

So how big can Facebook really get? If it is unbuyable now, where will it go?

 

[froggyboy604]

Facebook probably be run similar to other big corporations like Disney which owns a lot of land, entertainment studios, music, and tourism parks and cruises. I believe Disney is now a public company where people buy and sell stocks, so whoever buy stocks in Disney owns a stock in Disney, and the board of directors or people with the most stock hire a CEO to run the company.

YouTube can be the same. It is too big to buy for most companies or mega rich people like Donald Trump.

 

[cpvr]

According to CNN (http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/08/technol ... /index.htm) and many other news sites, Facebook has become too large to buy.

I for one, believe it. Everyone does Facebook, everyone has a Facebook, and if you don't, your not at the same level as everyone else.

So how big can Facebook really get? If it is unbuyable now, where will it go?

Every site has a price though. If Facebook ever sold, it would probably sell for 100 billion or more.

 

[Zaborg]

What goes up, must come down.

We don't know for sure, but Facebook can fail. It can lose users, anything can happen.

But it's not just a site anymore, for sure.

 

[Fait]

Agree with Zaborg

Everything has its ending, MySpace use to be the big social media site but something better game along, Whos to say this won't happened to Facebook?

 

[death180]

I think MySpace is leaning towards helping out aspiring musicians and it seems to be doing pretty well. But MySpace is still up there, it's still big.

I think a site is too big when it loses sight of it's original purpose, Facebook is starting to do that.

 

[D]

There is nothing to say Facebook won't be outdone by something else, but comparing Facebook with myspace is like comparing FP to a waffle.

Who would say Facebook would ever sell? It must generate alot of revenue to keep itself in buisness and pay hundereds of staff members worldwide.

YouTube can be the same. It is too big to buy for most companies or mega rich people like Donald Trump.

Google bought Youtube in 2006 for $1.6 billion


I think Facebook will continue grow to the point the major FB players decide to expand and eventually become something like Google.

 

[Fait]

Can you give me the link to waffle?

And Zuckerberg had lots of offers but turned them all Down

 

[D]

Can you give me the link to waffle?

 

[Fait]

I'm confused now lol FP is an Forum, Waffle is only food?

 

[death180]

Facebook will never be like Google, Google follows web standards that Facebook ignores. To the average user it's no big deal but to web designers it's like getting slapped in the face. (Maybe that's just me)

 

[Fait]

I heard that Facebook makes its billions of dollars by selling users info to coverment originations? In a interview Zuckerberg starting swearing once they said something about it, So I don't know.....

 

[D]

Facebook will never be like Google, Google follows web standards that Facebook ignores. To the average user it's no big deal but to web designers it's like getting slapped in the face. (Maybe that's just me)

When something outgrows its original purpose there is only one thing left to do, expand. Google and Facebook are two major players on the internet and it is only a matter of time before Facebook attempts to knock Google off its perch.

 

[Fait]

If Facebook stops selling our info then this can be possible that's why google plus was created because google, has already tried to knock Facebook offline but I think that has failed or is still in the works

 

[Shahrier]

Facebook will never be like Google, Google follows web standards that Facebook ignores. To the average user it's no big deal but to web designers it's like getting slapped in the face. (Maybe that's just me)

When something outgrows its original purpose there is only one thing left to do, expand. Google and Facebook are two major players on the internet and it is only a matter of time before Facebook attempts to knock Google off its perch.

Which will never happen. Google is too superior, more than any other internet company, to be knocked off by some social network.

 

[D]

Facebook will never be like Google, Google follows web standards that Facebook ignores. To the average user it's no big deal but to web designers it's like getting slapped in the face. (Maybe that's just me)

When something outgrows its original purpose there is only one thing left to do, expand. Google and Facebook are two major players on the internet and it is only a matter of time before Facebook attempts to knock Google off its perch.

Which will never happen. Google is too superior, more than any other internet company, to be knocked off by some social network.

Facebook is not just some social network, it is THE social network. If Google was so superior wouldn't Google+ have killed off FB?

 

[Shahrier]

Facebook will never be like Google, Google follows web standards that Facebook ignores. To the average user it's no big deal but to web designers it's like getting slapped in the face. (Maybe that's just me)

When something outgrows its original purpose there is only one thing left to do, expand. Google and Facebook are two major players on the internet and it is only a matter of time before Facebook attempts to knock Google off its perch.

Which will never happen. Google is too superior, more than any other internet company, to be knocked off by some social network.

Facebook is not just some social network, it is THE social network. If Google was so superior wouldn't Google+ have killed off FB?

Google is superior in a lot of departments, while facebook is only dominant in one. Imo, G+ should have killed off facebook, but facebook has too many attached users, which makes it the social network.

 

[D]

And those 800+ million attached users would make a great userbase if they ever did expand. Facebook must have some very talented people working for them to maintain a site of that caliber, I am sure their skills are not limited to social networking.

 

[Shahrier]

Obviously not, yet, they stick to it and don't expand. I'm sure it would be a huge success if they were too, but not enough to overcome google.

 

[death180]

I don't think they will knock off Google. Their business philosophy is horrible, if Google gets knocked off by Facebook, what does that say about society and the world as a whole?