4 scenarios for the future of Facebook

Mashable's series Tech in 2025 explores how the challenges of today will dramatically change the near future. 

In 2020, Facebook is a greater force than ever. 

As of June 30, a record 2.7 billion people — exactly a third of the population of Earth — enter the social network at least once a month. Some 1.8 billion of us, another record, use Facebook at least once a day. Just counting these devotees, Facebook has a population larger than the U.S. and China combined. Add the roughly 600 million who don't frequent Facebook but do visit one of its conquests (Instagram and WhatsApp) daily, and we're talking an empire the size of the U.S., China, Russia, and all of Europe. Read more...