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I sometimes wonder if there is no 'After Facebook'.

I use different services for different community focuses - like YouTube and Twitch for gaming videos/streams I watch with friends. Instagram for incidental activity picture stuff. Twitter for talking directly "to" companies. Signal for IM stuff. I do actually use Google Hangouts for board game nights and talking about projects sometimes - kinda silly. :-)

I just find Facebook a mess with the ads and disorganization looking at so many facets of my friends' lives. Google did good identifying the need for putting people in circles, but Facebook was so well-established by then. I only want to view things my friends are doing if its a mutual interest, really. Facebook is like manually filtering through several streams of consciousness - it's more exhausting than rewarding.

I don't think Facebook is ever going to fail and be the next MySpace, but I do think social attitudes have changed about using a 'general' social networking site.

The truth is Facebook pretty much has it all when it comes to social networking. It's UI design also speaks well to non technical people (read: most of the world), as it looks like a cluttered newspaper which people are familiar with.

'After Facebook' would likely be on new hardware that gets adopted, such as AR/VR in the next 10 years.

> 'After Facebook' would likely be on new hardware that gets adopted, such as AR/VR in the next 10 years.

Which is why Facebook bought Oculus.

Now that would be exciting - I'd love to see how Facebook augments reality for social networking. :-)

(which sounds a bit silly)

I want to see posts from my friends in the real world, rather than my friends in the real world.

Currently there is no FB alternative. There will be eventually. There is nothing that I can think of that has no alternative. Even Google has Bing which is viable. FB has none.

Only if you want everything integrated. I think that was OP's point.

Google failed at social because of integration. Integration can be as much of a turn off as a lock in.

Also I wish facebook would stop stalking me with you have more friends than you think messages.

There are lots of alternatives technically speaking - G+, Diaspora, Ello and others. Socially though FB is probably where your friends and family are.

Read 'More Awesome Than Money,' by Jim Dwyer. It's a history of Diaspora. It was technically OK, but had no use case.

Here's something that might work. FratNet. Get major fraternities and sororities at a big party school to use Diaspora nodes. The pitch is that the frat controls who can get on, and there's no snooping by Facebook. Expand this to frats nationally, creating a big distributed network of frat members, and, over time, alumni.

Twitter and Telegram were all I needed for keeping up with people during a convention last weekend. I can't imagine any of Facebook's services working as well.

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