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Originally Posted by AdultKing
To a point Facebook already is one.
The number of people I see socially who have Facebook and Twitter apps on their phone and readily admit that's the extent of their Internet use.
Even on TV it's becoming that way, people often have ABC iView, Netflix for viewing video content, Facebook on their TV, when they do leave Facebook it's often to go to a news site, which in this country are rapidly rolling out Apps and becoming subscription based.
Most of us live outside of the world of the average consumer, we create content therefore fool ourselves into believing that all the sites we visit is the norm, however I am sure there is a growing segment of our population for which Facebook and the odd cloud based service is their entire scope of the Internet.
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While I don't doubt that there are people who only use Facebook and little or nothing else, there are a lot of people who perceive themselves as only using Facebook, but in fact do a whole lot more on other sites than they realize.
A perfect example of this is my brother's wife. She claims all she ever needs internet access for is Facebook, which she is on multiple times per day. However, when I sat down at her computer and checked the history it turns out she visits a lot of sites fairly regularly, but for some reason doesn't count them. She visits yahoo to play games, she has horses and visits several horse supply and info sites, she also looks up stuff about TV shows she watches and gets online to check kids sports schedules. When I point this out to her she just shrugged it off and actually said, "Those are really the internet though." Apparently they just exist in her computer and nowhere else.