Facebook will be fine, because MS put 1 billion dollars in to it.

I didn't even have the internet when I was growing up......lol

I can't imagine growing up with cell phones, internet, msn.....

I had to call my friends on their home phone lines (never past 10 pm), or walk to their house....lol

they put a billion ****ing dollars into clippy ffs

That's only true because everyone has computers now.

But despite that it's a lot more likely that things will evolve and new generations will have new things and reject the ways of the older generation.

I think we may be arguing different things. You are saying something Facebook (I mean.. technically Myspace should get the credit, right?) inspired will be around in the future. Sure it will. Myspace was just a hybrid of personal web pages and instant messaging which came around awhile ago. Personal web pages and instant messaging were just byproducts of IRC and BBS's.

This is just part of the evolution. I suppose if you Facebook cannot be considered a fad none of it can as its part of the internet socializing evolution. I'm not arguing that something that has Myspace inspirations will not be around in the future. Just that it will be much different than what we have now.

it'd probably sound better

has anybody else invented a better interactive paper clip?

Didn't think so

btw, everyone in my high school (oh.. 10 years ago) used IM every day for a long time.

It's not that I don't understand the impact of social networking.. it's that it is constantly evolving.

agreed. I guess I have a different connotation of the word fad. Just because something eventually changes or evolves or even disappears doesn't mean it was a fad. Of course brand names are going to come and go. But to me, a fad is a short-lived superficial flavor. Windows probably won't be around forever, but it's certainly not a fad

But yea anyways, lets go back to making fun of dan or something

Much better idea.

ICQ is by far the most popular here.
IRC is still very much alive and kicking. And I'd say that the beginning of IRC/BBS had a different group of people (tech guys), facebook started out designed for the lazman from day one.
And on a sidenote, this "forum" is nothing but a new age BBS.
Yeah I'm always amazed how cheap storage is everytime I check the stores it seems like I can get 2x for the same price.
Also if you encrypt stuff, make sure to keep your encryption keys safe. It's amazing how many people don't. A friend of mine works in IT-security and every single case he was involved in where someone had encrypted storage they also had stored the key somewere on an unencrypted drive.

Also I dunno what you are talking about with the IMing beeing dead. I and pretty much everyone I know uses IMs every day and it's pretty awesome for multinational companies (especially if you do programming and can paste some code quickly etc)

Alright I added a bunch of you jagoffs. Now the ball is in your court.

Today's apparently my "bald guys with goatee's" day on Facebook

Facebook is also awesome to sell people classes at the University of Phoenix. Just saying.

this explains the friend requests

Does this make me the great uniter of POG?

I don't find it in particularly good taste to request to be in the group and not friend me. There are 4-5 of you who know that I'm talking about you.

zomg Facebook drama

Says the guy who got a Facebook account to steal pictures and didn't bother being in the group.

I'm pretty sure thats the last time I've loaded facebook.com.

I should probably tag you in all the pictures so you have to manually delete the tags.

Surely I won't have to do anything if I never go to the website.

Don't call me Surely.

Geez, such anger over a typo ...

this from the pog untier

I dont have facebook for a number of reasons, counter-culture ftw