Facebook and twitter are going to take over the world. I'm calling it.

[TheLefty]

After finishing her taxes online, TaxAct asked my sister if she wanted to post that she did her taxes on her facebook wall. After finishing a Ben 10 game on cartoonnetwork.com it asked my cousin if he wanted to post his high score on facebook. Even the Escapist now allows you to sign in/up using facebook. So my theory is that facebook will wriggle it's way into every website on the internet and from there somehow collapse the majority of the internet backbones in the world crippling news, travel, and maybe even military. From there Twitter will come in as an Emperor Palpatine/Hitler figure and assume control by seeming to appose the Facebook take over. However, secretly Twitter and Facebook are allied, with the heads of both corporations being the same person/group. And from there, the rule the world.

If it's one person in charge then eventually a rebellion will arise, and from there it's just the Star Wars Original Trilogy. If it's a group, then eventually there will an argument, which will lead to a civil war, which will leave the world in ruins, leaving the winner (my money's on the facebook remnant) in a crunch to rebuild their empire. Eventually though, the rebellion will rise and over power the FBE (Facebook Empire). And who will this rebellion be led/supported by? Youtube. TTA (Youtube Alliance) will team with the Old World Government (OWG, basically the United Nations that was overthrown by during the Facebook Wars) to overthrow the FBE. However, the Twitter Remnant will be waiting, and while the YTA and the OWG are recovering from the Second Facebook War the Twitter Remnant will rise again.

Spoiler

Yes, I was being sarcastic.

EDIT: I just realized that there's pretty much no discussion here. So, share your Facebook taking over the world stories (basically seeing that little symbol on weird sites) or defend or prosecute my theory. Remember though, I'm being sarcastic here, don't take it too seriously.

 

[Marter]

Wow. That is a crazy theory.

I've only gotten so far as to say they'll be merged completely someday.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

That crazy talk..someone's gotten into Grandpa's cough medicine again.

OnTopic: Even though it's sarcastic i can see where you're going with this and i see it as a very plausible outcome.

 

[Tharwen]

What will happen first, though, is that Microsoft will release a reskinned version of Facebook under a name like 'Microsoft Connect'. They will then realise that exactly 17 people use it and re-release it with a new name, such as 'SocialNet', with their next operating system, requiring users to log in to it before they can access the internet. When they have enough users on it, they will then pretend that it people prefer it to alternatives, and that it had absolutely nothing to do with any other product in the first place and it was entirely their idea honest.

I dislike Microsoft, but they have DirectX, so they get my money.

List of software copied by Microsoft (from memory):

Firefox
Mac OSX
AIM
Steam
iTunes
Google

And many more that I can't remember right now. I do, however, admit that some of their software is innovative, original, and excellent. Not to mention most of their games.

I don't know what prompted this rant...

 

[TheLefty]

What will happen first, though, is that Microsoft will release a reskinned version of Facebook under a name like 'Microsoft Connect'. They will then realise that exactly 17 people use it and re-release it with a new name, such as 'SocialNet', with their next operating system, requiring users to log in to it before they can access the internet. When they have enough users on it, they will then pretend that it people prefer it to alternatives, and that it had absolutely nothing to do with any other product in the first place and it was entirely their idea honest.

I dislike Microsoft, but they have DirectX, so they get my money.

I completely forgot to mention Microsoft. I'll add that in my second draft.

Oh, and 500th post. Half way to 1000 w00t!

 

[brettskibols]

I'd love to disagree with this and claim that they can't possibly take over the world but if sites like Google all know where you live and sites like facebook know what you're doing we're all one daft political decision from having to sign up to facebook from birth.

On the plus side we won't need ID cards...

 

[Quaxar]

Facebook will partner with Walmart, and McDonalds will eventually join in. Eventually the government will buy them all, and we will be trapped by consumer goods and by the internet.

I'm not sure anyone will still want to partner with McDonald's after the great FastFood-wars of '13-'20. That's like an alliance with France shortly after WWII.
But this theory would get my mythbusters "plausible" branding, if I had it at hand right now. Better prepare for resistance... someone got a leftover RPG? Will even take Diablo!