[gt2]

You underestimate several things:

- the difficulty of changing services for the technically challenged.

- Facebook's technical prowess (much different than MySpace was)

- Facebook's variety outside of a pure social network (they are a news app, craiglist/classifieds, meetup/events, Picasa 10.0/photo app, messenger, and a myspace clone, all rolled into one, with new services added all of the time). Probably missed something else.

[xbmcuser]

Facebook stayed ahead in many ways by buying out it's future competition i.e Instagram and WhatsApp and tried very hard for snapchat without success so copied it with instagram. Most people in my extended family no longer post much on Facebook but are regular and heavy users of WhatsApp groups and instagram.