Zuckerberg: Most of Facebook Will Be Video Within Five Years

jfruh writes: Facebook recently held its first ever town-hall meeting in which Mark Zuckerberg took questions from the general public, and one of his answers might raise some eyebrows. When asked if the increasing numbers of photos being uploaded might strain the company's servers, he said the infrastructure is more than up to the task, because they're preparing for the notion that "in five years, most of [Facebook] will be video."

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No.

[kuzb]

I find it increasingly more and more difficult to take Zuckerberg seriously.

Re:No.

[TubeSteak]

Worth mentioning, there's a difference between asserting it will all be video, and preparing your infrastructure for that possibility.

I tracked down the webcast and the question is asked ~34 minutes in.
Here's what he actually said, beyond the snippet being quoted everywhere

5 years ago, most of facebook was text and if you fast forward 5 years, probably most of it is going to be video, just because it's getting easier to capture video of the moments of your lives and share it [...]

He then talks about the news feed ranking your stories.

Every day there are about 1,500 stories that are shared with you and the average person will only look at about 100 a day, because that's all you have time for

In 5 years, if everything on facebook is video, the average person is sure as hell not going to have time to interact with 100 videos per day.
Unless they copy Vine, a richer video experience on facebook will necessarily mean that you interact with less people per unit of time.

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[Em Adespoton]

Who the fuck has the time to look through 100 FB stories a day???

the average person will only look at about 100 a day

Nobody; they look at the headlines and then add 100 comments, just like here on slashdot.

So long as it does not autoplay.

[QuietLagoon]

Autoplay HTML5 video is the scourge on the Internet. Is there a way to stop it?

Re:So long as it does not autoplay.

[i kan reed]

adblock rule: ##video

Any other problems that can be solved really easily?

How cute!

[Lumpy]

Zuck thinks that Facebook will be relevant in 5 years.... how ADORABLE!

In 5 years, most facebook will be...

[roc97007]

...unseen by me. I don't want to sit through video. I *can* read, although it seems like most Facebook denizens can't write.

When I poke a link to a news item, if it leads to a video, rather than waiting for the commercial to load and play, and the talking heads to stop self promoting and get to the point, I've long since dismissed the tab and found the news item somewhere else as text.

The more Facebook forces video, the less interesting it is.

And of course, Google will copy everything Facebook does, so G+ will be screwed also.

I'm going back to Usenet. run-on puns were better than this. (It was just a capital-K to get rid of them.)

Re:In five years

[Anonymous Coward]

I bet you were one of the Facebook bashers who ran around here chanting that GoogleMinus was going to make Facebook die a few years back too.
 
You know, we get it, you hate Facebook. Fair enough. I can't say I blame you. But after a decade and a half of listening to the Slashdot peanut gallery I've come to realize that the only way you guys would ever make a million dollars in business is if you started with a billion dollars.
 
While Facebook isn't exactly going gangbusters it is still increasing its user base. This talk that it's dead and we should stick a fork in it reeks of the same kind of mentality that makes investors pull their money out of a company because they're only showing a 10% increase in revenue and not 20%. Nothing more and nothing less than knee jerk nonsense.
 
See you around when the next Facebook article appears here and you come up with nothing but a handful of crap to sling as justification for why you think Facebook is failing.