How many years do you give facebook?

Sorry, slightly less smart arsed answer: cookies, among other trickery. Who clears cookies? Fucking no one, that's who.

Even without cookie-based trickery (om nom nom), the fact that Facebook now has a detailed profile-based footprint in pretty much every major website means they can demand HUGE cash from advertisers as an ad placement firm. They're going to fuck Google in the ass when it comes to ad sales.

Really? Any stats on that? I thought you might say cookies but I thought most people cleared them - mine are cleared every time I close my browser.

Don't you get annoyed losing all your settings n stuff that are stored in cookies if you clear them all the time?

And clearing them isn't going to help that much. As soon as you log into Facebook etc it's in your cookies for the rest of the session anyway.

Dude, I wouldn't even say most GEEKS clear them in any regular fashion.

Sif you would clear your cookies unless you are in the tinfoil hat brigade

No? Just means I have to log in to Facebook, Gmail etc every time I open a new browser session.. No big deal.

Nothing to do with tin-foil hats - I deal with Facebook in NZ for work every day and it's all harmless info at this stage, if anything I'd be more worried about Google

Nice.

Actually, going back a step - who the hell closes their browser anyway?

*boldly raises hand*

Me Sir. Yes Sir. I close my browser Sir!

I'll just put this here....

http://blogs.forbes.com/timworstall/2011/06/15/the-end-of-facebook/

Hehe, dude, that piece is the equivalent of saying that oil will increase in price

Maximum FB saturation will be met, and may already have been, until some fundamental financial/socio-cultural borders are breached. There's no reason why usage won't remain fairly steady in its current form, though, as there is no reasonable alternative for the majority of us as yet. But that piece has no weight at all unless you happen to have recently bought stocks in it

ps. Gotta catch up for a pint soon!

Wow. Did you really just post that article in here to try prove your point?

Even the article states that Facebook is still rapidly growing - which is true.

just stirring really, wasn't my finest moment. Very tired and it would totally work on some of the dumbarses I've had to deal with lately... Forgot this was biggie :p

TtheHF yep, definitely.... This time next week I'll be preparing for a big ol drinking binge...

Sounds good to me; binge drinking is where I'm a viking! http://www.hark.com/clips/zpvhhbwrfr-im-a-viking

700 million people can't be wrong, surely. Can they?

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-in-the-top-10-most-hated-companies-in-america/1833

funny, just read this from a CNN Money 2006 list of people who don't matter:

Mark Zuckerberg
Founder, Facebook
In entrepreneurship, timing is everything. So we'll give Zuckerberg credit for launching his online social directory for college students just as the social-networking craze was getting underway. He also built it right, quickly making Facebook one of the most popular social-networking sites on the Net. But there's also something to be said for knowing when to take the money and run. Last spring, Facebook reportedly turned down a $750 million buyout offer, holding out instead for as much as $2 billion. Bad move. After selling itself to Rupert Murdoch's Fox for $580 million last year, MySpace is now the Web's second most popular website. Facebook is growing too - but given that MySpace has quickly grown into the industry's 80-million-user gorilla, it's hard to imagine who would pay billions for an also-ran.

how to get it wrong 101

Nor can our clever biggies.

I heard Mark Zuckerberg kicked Smiley's dog. That's what I heard anyway.