I visited my godchildren yesterday, four of them, and had them all engage in a conversation about how they were going to die. They have been around for several years now, from about 3 to 13 and I felt the conversation was appropriate. If you guessed that I am not serious, you would be correct, but this is a direct parallel to the way people talk about online games, apps, websites, etc. Recently, when Facebook turned 10, I started to notice a lot of articles online talking about it's demise, as if it wasn't the most popular social network in the world and near death. Why? It's popular because people like using it for various reasons. A lot of people are on it, and it is an extension of your social life, so unless you're a paranoid conspiracy theorist, or just don't like people, you have one. Even more annoying are the bands, musicians, artists, etc. who do nothing but benefit from a free service, yet won't shut up about how they hate it. No one knows who you are, so let's bash the very service that gives us more popularity and a way to connect with others we normally wouldn't be able to. How about those people die?
Here lies Facebook,
just because you wanted
it to die, it did. You're cool.