Facebook and Craigslist to sleep with the fishes!

Yep, I said it. I’m predicting the demise of Facebook and Craigslist! Why? Simple. “Product evolution”. What is product evolution? Well, you’ve probably never heard of such a thing because I invented the phrase to describe my theory behind the birth and death of the oh so popular products and services that appear and then disappear rather quickly. But to spare you the details including the complete history of both online services, I will cut straight to the point. Internet users have relatively short attention spans. While these products seem to fill a need (a good thing) they are usually trumped later by the creation of newer models…or completely different concepts. I have gazed into my crystal ball and can clearly see what internet users truly want. They want direct lines of communication without any red tape, they literally want to reach out and touch someone (in real-time). They want visual confirmation, visual communication, and 4D interfaces. Sure smart phones make it easy to submit updates on twitter or post your status on Facebook, but we want even more up to the minute communication than “what you were doing a few minutes ago!” Hard to believe…or understand? Picture it this way. If I post a tweet, and you read it 5 minutes later…you only know what I was doing 5 minutes earlier. If I tell you I am “making tacos” by the time you read it, I could have finished making tacos and now drinking a margarita! Simply put. We no longer want to know what you were doing 5 minutes ago. We want to know what you are doing NOW! (This second) And we don’t want to wait for you to tell us…before we can know.

And now the future. (or a glimpse)
Close your eyes and picture a device that interacts with your smart phone. It records and reports your pulse, environment temp, exact location via GPS, automatically streams live video of your surroundings, can tell when you are eating by the changes in your blood sugar, reports how many calories you are burning, can define the types of material your clothes are made up, can tell us what brand of clothes you are wearing by interacting with the labels on your clothing, can determine your variable moods, can report when you sneeze, when your sleeping, what music is streaming through your IPod at the moment, and can tell me who you’re currently sharing a caramel frappe with at your local McDonalds or Starbucks. This is the future. We are becoming a 100% mobile society. Soon we will not have time to “update our status” we will all be providing real time feeds of our lives to millions!

Imagine how creepy it would be if a company could tell you how many people are wearing their jeans, shoes, or even using their writing pens right at this very moment! Imagine being able to monitor blood sugar levels in real time, 24/7. Imagine being able to not only locate the restaurant your friends are eating at, but being able to see what they ordered from the menu, and revealing what you may have in common with the other people in restaurant without even being there. Yeh, there’s an app for that!