Executive says Facebook will be all video, no text in 5 years

Video must be doing well on Facebook, because an executive at the company just predicted that's all Facebook will be in five years.

Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook's vice president of European, Middle Eastern and African operations, said at a conference Tuesday that in five years, Facebook "will be probably all video," Quartz reported. Mendelsohn added that video is "the best way to tell stories in this world" and "helps us to digest much more information."

Mendelsohn is predicting the obsolescence of the written word, at least on Facebook, according to Quartz. Read more...