So I apologize if I’m late to the party here…been busy with the Small Biz club and we’re prohibited to discuss FB over there.

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about what the web marketing world will look like after Facebook.

This is because nothing lasts forever (MySpace? Friendster? Digg?) but it’s only been sped up by recent surveys showing 50% of Americans think FB is a fad, a poorly received IPO and recent stats on ads not being effective.

In any case, I wrote a blog post about preparing for a post-FB world (a lot about getting fans to become email subscribers), but I was wondering if you FB fanatics thought I was off base.

Here’s the blog post if you want to read it, but feel free to respond here if you like.

http://www.flyteblog.com/flyte/2012/06/how-to-prepare-for-the-end-of-facebook.html

Interesting article: Facebook colonization of the world progress report

@juleswebb very interesting! Thanks for sharing.

rich, your  blog  post has  great  business advice..and you are so right,   they own my  facebook page,which i  dont   like…but its a fact………….but i  dont see much   evidence that   facebook is  fading away……..i think  mobile and pinterest   are the  big   unknowns  for the  social  media  future….i would  be more worried about  blogs  fading away….

its  going to  change…and maybe something better will happen….but   nothing is  even close  yet…or  even on the horizon..and  their  finances still look  pretty healthy  …lots of unrest tho!!! …… @juleswebb good  points…

@juleswebb Yes, well perhaps I was getting ahead of myself. That being said, the pressures of them trying to balance investor needs (profitability) and user needs (privacy) may come to a head sooner than we’d like.

@tamarnaveh-koren Thanks. We should always be trying to lead social networking connections to a place where we can maintain the relationship and not be reliant on someone else’s platform. I’d hate to think the only place I could get business is by physically being at the chamber of commerce!

@richardmclaughlin Ah, but there’s more than one horseless carriage, isn’t there. In fact, most of the early horseless carriages brands are gone now and most of us have never heard of them. 

What are you doing over here, @rich-brooks?  Ahh stirring the pot!  :)  

I thought your post was great and definitely agree that building your e-mail list is KEY.  Facebook is a great place to get your e-mail optin in place for sure!   I have 1-2 new subscribers each day that are coming straight from my Facebook custom tab.  And advertising that custom tab has worked well for me too.  

Thanks for stopping in  I’m going to go write an article about the end of Small Business.  Hmmm maybe I have to rethink that

@rich-brooks

You are not off base at all Rich. You are actually very realistic. The Facebook eruption will all end soon. So the questions what is next?!

@jasonhubbard Isn’t that the truth, but to extend the thought experiment, we could loose the whole internet. It is possible that enough privacy scandals and/or negative online to real world interactions could result in a backlash of people grabbing board games and books for entertainment.

At the same time, the ever increasing cost of getting online plus declining wages could result in a crunch as well if corrective measures aren’t taken (you can only justify your cable bill against an empty stomach for so long).

So who knows what the future may hold? My wife and I have already dropped cable TV from our homes, and as throttling becomes more annoying, and price goes up, we’re seriously considering getting rid of internet access as well!

We have a good circle of friends, tons of board games, and tons of books, plus an awesome local library. Do we need Angry Birds or Facebook? No. If the barriers to entry get to obnoxious, will we drop? You betcha.

Jason