>Its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has even declared his quest to chart a "social graph" of human relationships the way that cartographers once charted the world.
Whether or not Facebook is worth 10 billion dollars on the market today as an acquired company is irrelevant; Facebook does represent a shift in how we are social on the internet. Hacker News does as well, but I've only met people who are willing to meet up with me in cities other than Pittsburgh and on Facebook they all live in Pittsburgh.
If nothing better comes along, Facebook will be worth more than 10 billion dollars in the long run. There's also a good chance something better will come along, and it will probably happen overnight if Google buys the old TV frequencies and licenses space on all the old TV towers. Maybe someone smart will figure out how to implement the semantic web by himself or with a YC style investor.
The barriers between the web and the real world have really started to dissolve. I know a lot of people around my age that are in long term (for 22 year olds) relationships with people they met on the internet.
The Facebook Generation is a small part of America. It's the people who went to four year universities and their friends. For all of my age-group peers, I use the descriptor Generation Y because I hope that generations X, Y, and Z are the final generations of Humanity. Hopefully by the time that Generation Z has children we will all be Post-Humans, sipping our drinks in the enlightenment of eternity.
Very, very important observation. Coincidentally, the recent Wolrd Bank story (https://hackernews.hn/item?id=64367), is quite relevant to this thought.
Whether or not Facebook is worth 10 billion dollars on the market today as an acquired company is irrelevant; Facebook does represent a shift in how we are social on the internet. Hacker News does as well, but I've only met people who are willing to meet up with me in cities other than Pittsburgh and on Facebook they all live in Pittsburgh.
If nothing better comes along, Facebook will be worth more than 10 billion dollars in the long run. There's also a good chance something better will come along, and it will probably happen overnight if Google buys the old TV frequencies and licenses space on all the old TV towers. Maybe someone smart will figure out how to implement the semantic web by himself or with a YC style investor.
The barriers between the web and the real world have really started to dissolve. I know a lot of people around my age that are in long term (for 22 year olds) relationships with people they met on the internet.
The Facebook Generation is a small part of America. It's the people who went to four year universities and their friends. For all of my age-group peers, I use the descriptor Generation Y because I hope that generations X, Y, and Z are the final generations of Humanity. Hopefully by the time that Generation Z has children we will all be Post-Humans, sipping our drinks in the enlightenment of eternity.