Forseeing the death of Facebook

Everyone is on Facebook! My boss is on Facebook. And apparently, people are on Facebook much more than they should. After reading the Joereco’s Weblog entry about a Facebook Suicide, I stopped to think how often I search the social Web site. How often do I search to see if a friend has changed her profile picture or who SuperPoke’d who? The blog entry was about a mass Facebook suicide where many people who had allowed Facebook become such a big part of their lives agreed to close their accounts and never go back. What kind of people had allowed Facebook to become such a big part of their lives? After thinking about it, a lot of people do. And I know a few. Luckily, I’m not one of them. I can go days without logging in, and I still call some friends. But I am curious to see what my friends are up to. Unfortunately, I get to see what too many people are up to…

Here’s my gripe, too many people are on Facebook. Where it started as a cool college-only social network, it has become this world-wide phenomenon that everyone has joined. Because of this, a lot of people are starting to give it up because it’s the popular thing. Eventually, a lot of people are going to leave the site because of this, I know I’ve thought of it. MySpace is in now way better. It’s lack of tacky profiles made Facebook my favorite, but as soon as I walked by a budget meeting at the Observer where editors had Facebook projected up on a wall, I knew it was the beginning of the end.  Any thoughts? Do you think Facebook will meet it’s fate soon?