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My thoughts as well. I've often called Facebook the Geocities and/or webring of this decade.

In the 90's, you put up your very own Geocities page in a virtual neighborhood, and then joined a webring of like minded folks.

Facebook, MySpace, et al, just seem to be the Web 2.0 Ajax Reflectioned Logo version of Geocities, and will probably follow a similar path.

No matter how you view it, I think 2008 is the year for the trough of disillusionment for Facebook.



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