Facebook Closes for Last Time

Following the recent shut down of MySpace for lack of users, Facebook recently decided to close its virtual doors. Well not actually, this was the story from the future from the editors of Mind Bullets. They write that in the 2021 that the next generation is turned off by their parents’ obsession with digital gadgets and a virtual world. They predict there will be a return to flower power and acoustic guitars. One mother complains about her 13 year son, he never touches his laptop and writes her little paper notes instead of email. This new age group will be called generation Z for zero as they reject anything high tech.

Interesting idea. But there will still be enough aging 00s to keep these digital worlds open. I think their prediction may be a little too soon. I am experimenting with a digg button here in case you want to share this.

Comments

[carl]

Internesting article. We'll see how it pans out..

[Stephen Downes]

I can pretty easily imagine Facebook closing. But writing paper notes instead of email? Well, it may be 2021, but who has that kind of money to throw away?

Nobody is going to return to flower power and acoustic guitars, no more than they returned to being flappers. It was a gratuitous and self-indulgent time, and will be remembered that way, the generation that frittered away our wealth before the onset of the Collapse.

[sam]

Facebook will just sell out likem many others Closeing its door, naaa..
we still use myspace to promote our band. Whats cool is the automation software out there like http://www.myfriendbuilder.com/ it automates adding friends and emails. Probably not for what you are useing myspace for but it is great for bars and bands.