There is so much FUD in this NYTimes article about Facebook, I had to retort.  The article is full of troll-level misstatements, I’m almost thinking it’s a parody piece:
- Facebook’s numbers are going up. Â They have more users and more unique views every month.
- They said an exodus happened when they pulled Scrabulous down. Â Hi, Scrabble is a copyright-protected game. Â How would you like it if your work was copied and given away for free?
- “Postings that seem private can scatter and slip unpredictably into a sort of semipublic status.†  Hahaha, if you screw up and post something in a public forum, that’s your own fault.
- “One day, on another Web site, she responded to an invitation to rate a movie she saw. The next time she logged on to Facebook, there was a message acknowledging that she had made the rating.” Â That would only happen if she went to the review site through Facebook. Â No application can post to your profile without explicit authorization.
- The other complaints center around personal information used for advertising (Running the #3 website in the world probably requires a fantastic amount of money) and that the site seems stale (That’ll happen when you have 250 MILLION users).
There’s always a trend of  “predicting the demise” of a heavyweight.  I don’t love Facebook, I wouldn’t mind if something better came along but I’m not expecting it to disappear anytime soon.