Current Events > How do you see these websites faring in 10 years from now

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GameFAQs
Facebook
Reddit
YouTube
Twitter
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dbf50 posted...

GameFAQs
Facebook
Reddit
YouTube
Twitter

Hopefully the will all be gone except for GameFAQs.

GameFAQs: Dead
Facebook: Old people will leave once they find out their kids are on other sites and leave it a wasteland
Reddit: Probably a really niche social media site. With the way their direction is going I think they'll become overly corporate and isolate their core userbase
YouTube: Probably the same
Twitter: Probably the same
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GameFAQs will still be around, still chugging along, frankly I think it'll actually grow bigger and bigger as sites like Kotaku and Resetera keep getting more and more insular. Outside of the forums, GameFAQs has done a brilliant job of keeping everything very neutral

Facebook's already on the downwards spiral from a triple whammy of being known as a site for older people; its image of being known to manipulate its users by showing them posts engineered to push their mood positively/negatively; and Zucc's completely tone-deaf, arrogant personality making him widely disliked

Reddit's fairing better on the public image front despite being pretty shady and gross (remember their reluctance to get rid of r/raccoontown, except it wasn't about raccoons? yeah), but I think they'll survive for a while. Their leadership is pretty bad, but I think it'll stick around as long as they don't do anything stupid. Also, the new interface is freakin' abysmal, so that certainly doesn't help.

Twitter: I have no idea. Twitter never seemed sustainable at all, and it's just a fecal pit that lots of people use all day for some bizarre reason. I guess it'll go when the investor money dries up, if that ever happens.

YouTube: Who knows. They seem poised for a better service to show up and just take over, but nobody really has the kind of storage or processing power to compete with a service backed by Google. I guess we'll see.
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GameFAQs: Exactly the same as it is today, but with more unwanted website design changes. Community will be the same. We'll finally have fully visible avatars and embedded images.

Facebook: Still dominant, but with tougher competition from other niche social media sites

Reddit: Possibly dead and replaced by the next big thing

YouTube: More restrictive Google bullshit, but mostly the same

Twitter: No clue, too hard to say. Probably the same
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Gamefaqs - dead. This type of message board format is just completely antiquated to younger people.

Twitter - probably down slightly.

The rest will be the same.

ArchiePeck posted...

Gamefaqs - dead. This type of message board format is just completely antiquated to younger people.

this website has been antiquated for 20 years
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GameFAQs - Alive
Facebook - It's a cemetery right now
Reddit - Alive
YouTube - Barely alive with puritanical, heavily restricted content policies
Twitter - Alive with same policies as above