[citation][nom]Chainzsaw[/nom]IMO facebook will be all downhill from now. I'm not trying to say it's going to completely fail, but I think eventually it will just become another Yahoo (where it used to be massively popular, and now they are just floundering/getting by).Even though they have a lot of users, people are starting to turn their attention to other things now. Not to mention their IPO fiasco didn't really help their image.Even though Toms has a facebook icon on their website (as does nearly every website these days it seems), I don't bother using FB anymore. I would rather see my friends face to face then chat/post on some website where all the data can be seen if you don't have proper security settings set.[/citation]
For the most part I would agree with you, but most of my friends (especially my oldest friends) tend to live very mobile life-styles (moving for jobs, schools, deployments, opportunities, for the hell of it, etc.), and FB has been an excellent tool to keep up with their lives. But yes, for my local friends, I would much rather just give them a call or text to set up a time to meet and hang out.
Also, I think FB stated going down hill a year or so ago. The demand for another social network is so strong that I am amazed as how hard Google+ failed. When rumor of it started then it seemed like everyone I knew (myself included) were ready to jump ship and move over. Sadly, all of our families and less tech-savvy friends did not make the jump, and so we have all slowly migrated back over to FB again.