If you wanted to figure out the size of the actual market for facebook (as it is today), I'd say find out what percentage of the population keeps their high school yearbooks, and looks through them periodically.
The similar problem with facebook to yearbooks is that it encourages people to put in data they are not going to want to see later on. I predict it will go away, but be very nostalgic, like the atari 2600. tshirts featuring facebookisms will be hysterical for 6 months in 2023.
what would be awesomely ironic would be if an ailing latter-day facebook made the last of its money issuing yearbook-like printed books of users' old accounts.
On Oct 10, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Jonathan Abbett wrote:
The major draw of Facebook is ubquity -- everyone you know from high school, college, maybe even the office has a profile. Charging for Facebook would drive away large swaths of users, and I predict that would have a negative snowballing effect: what's the use if only a small (and decreasing) portion of the people I know use it? Compare with Classmates.com -- you have to pay for their useful features, and hardly anyone I know uses it beyond a curious/casual initial sign-up. -Jonathan
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