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Joe Pa said:
Joe Pa said:
As I said, the historic tools aren't quite there because we're only in the 10th year (max) of this revolution, and digital photography is only in it's 14-15th year?
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Joe Pa said:
You're making assumptions, let's forget about Facebook going out of business. Let's say something happens to you tomorrow, who has your FB account login and password, or your pbase, flickr, and or dropbox account information? Who knows that you even use these sites to store your photos. You really want to trust these online accounts to manage all your family memories?

Anyone cleaning out your house would find a box of photos unless you decided to hide them.

I think people undervalue these memories or are in denial at how big a risk there is of your family losing access to all the family photos.
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Historic tools, etc.....blah blah blah.
 
JimBob0 said:
JimBob0 said:
And where will facebook be in even 10 years? Take a look at myspace now and that'll give you a clue.
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You really need to understand why Myspace went out of business. It was aimed at kids, had an awful layout, and a layout that with very little input could be made even worse. But what killed it was Facebook.

Facebook was aimed at adults from the start and had a very limited way to customise it's layout, which made it readable.
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Absolutely wrong. Facebook was aimed at college kids... made by college kids... and for years you had to have a .edu email address to register!
JimBob0 said:
Myspace's downfall really is not a good example to project onto Facebook. Even Google+ has been unable to shift Facebook.
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Why will facebook face? Kids are leaving it and kids aren't joining it as they get older. They've lost 11,000,000 teens in the past 3 years which is staggering because that means new kids aren't joining and kids that were on it deactivated their account! They left primarily because their parents, adult relatives were on it. They've since gone to twitter. Because few kids are on it, it won't last into the future if there's only 30+ people on it. Even adults will move onto something new.

2 years ago many news organizations and news personalities listed their facebook page. Instead they list their twitter account instead.
JimBob0 said:
JimBob0 said:
JimBob0 said:
As I said, the historic tools aren't quite there because we're only in the 10th year (max) of this revolution, and digital photography is only in it's 14-15th year?
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Have your stuff on a computer, stop using it, it gets thrown away when moving you to a retirement home - all gone. Have digital files on an internet server? Forget your email address, user name, or password - stop using computers and they can all be "lost" immediately. Not so with prints. You don't need to plug anything in to see them - so they are much less likely to be tossed. Only light is needed to view them unless the conundrum of digital files, storage, and file formats.
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And is this any different to someone dying and having boxes of photographs thrown out? Seriously, how many photographs printed in 1970 still exist today?
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I have many photo albums from my family. Printed photos are kept, and easily viewed. No compatible computer needed.
 
003tvd said:
the same will be said by kids born at the turn of this century. All the images documenting their young lives will have been taken digitally, and "safely" stored in an electronic format.
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Along these lines, I have a nephew-in-law who keeps all his photos he's taken of his kids on his phone. He only takes photos with his phone. That can be automatically backed up to "the cloud". If he moves his photos to each new phone, he can have every photo he's ever taken in his back pocket to view at any time, anywhere.
 
I will sure miss the old timers' handwriting on the back of the photos as the purely digital shots will not have that. Also, I wonder about correspondence--for example, reading a love letter from your Dad to your Mom. What will become of that? Letters home from a war zone -- a Skype transcript perhaps.

Paul
 
as long as my prints (version 1.0), and my eyeballs (version 1.old) are still around, there should be no compatibility issues. Many of my albums are older than the entire internet, and I can still access them, easily, and all without password protection. Long live Fuji Crystal Archive Type II paper.
 
pchaplo said:
I will sure miss the old timers' handwriting on the back of the photos as the purely digital shots will not have that. Also, I wonder about correspondence--for example, reading a love letter from your Dad to your Mom. What will become of that? Letters home from a war zone -- a Skype transcript perhaps.
Paul
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RedFox88 said:
JimBob0 said:
RedFox88 said:
And where will facebook be in even 10 years? Take a look at myspace now and that'll give you a clue.
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You really need to understand why Myspace went out of business. It was aimed at kids, had an awful layout, and a layout that with very little input could be made even worse. But what killed it was Facebook.

Facebook was aimed at adults from the start and had a very limited way to customise it's layout, which made it readable.
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Absolutely wrong. Facebook was aimed at college kids... made by college kids... and for years you had to have a .edu email address to register!
RedFox88 said:
Myspace's downfall really is not a good example to project onto Facebook. Even Google+ has been unable to shift Facebook.
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Why will facebook face? Kids are leaving it and kids aren't joining it as they get older. They've lost 11,000,000 teens in the past 3 years which is staggering because that means new kids aren't joining and kids that were on it deactivated their account! They left primarily because their parents, adult relatives were on it. They've since gone to twitter. Because few kids are on it, it won't last into the future if there's only 30+ people on it. Even adults will move onto something new.

2 years ago many news organizations and news personalities listed their facebook page. Instead they list their twitter account instead.
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College kids = 18 = adults. As I said.

Myspace = aimed at morons with no taste.

Facebook isn't going to fail because kids are leaving or not joining, it'll succeed because everyone they want to connect with in the future will be on it. They may not want to be Facebook users today, but they will be back in the future for entirely the same reasons we (the older folk) are on it today.

I've seen friends leave Facebook, only to rejoin a couple of weeks later because it was the most efficient way of keeping in touch with, and keeping up with friends.

It's exactly this reason that G+ failed = everyone was already on Facebook.
 
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