Is Facebook dying?

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Jesse Farmer posts what could turn out to be an observation of a tipping point - and decline - for Facebook may be on the cards.In The State of the Facebook Platform Jesse charts the growth of Facebook application development, and comes to the interesting conclusion that development activity is dying.The observation comes from tracking [...]

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[lin robinson]

How would such a death be experienced? Nobody posts there anymore?
I'm not sure how much the "developer" thing has to do with the activity or health of the forum.
I have no idea, but this could be a case of something maturing to point it will continue to function. Nobody's doing much development of scissors, either, but people still buy and use them.

[bumfluff]

Originally Posted by lin robinson

Nobody's doing much development of scissors, either, but people still buy and use them.

Yes, but you don't use scissors that are covered in crap. You clean them up so that they're useable again or get a new pair

[lin robinson]

Well, people not hanging out in a place that full of crap I can understand. Is that the word on Facebook?
I just don't get the whole "developer graph bit"

[bumfluff]

From what I understand of it, the article is using developer activity statistics to measure how "healthy" application development for Facebook is. There's an update to the article which spells out the conclusions more clearly.

[Joff]

IIRC new user signups were already down on Facebook at the start of the year, which could mean that people are either getting bored of it or that it has reached most of it's user base.

[lin robinson]

My interpretation would be the latter. I'm not sure how potential new users could be bored with it.

I also... and this in general for writing about business... have always had trouble with the concept of "no growth equals death".

[davcheong]

Actually i'm still using facebook, and its still bring some traffic to my website. How could it be dying?

[azcleaning]

Guys youtube killed them all, thats the reason why no one posts there anymore.

[Joff]

I've never understood why people use Youtube socially with all these video responses etc. Always thought people should get out more and Youtube reinforces that.