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I can't see how reddit can possibly become competition for Facebook, they work on two completely different levels and cater to different circles of people. Facebook is about following your real life friends, local events, brands and interacting with people that you know. Reddit is a pseudo anonymous forum where people interact within communities based on interests and topics and reach out to as many people as possible. Even with the introduction of profiles, reddit can't exactly replace Facebook since Facebook is tied to your real life identity, your actual friends and family rather than random Internet people and that aspect of it is what makes it popular and hard to get away from. Even if some functions of them overlap, I just don't see how they could directly compete with one another.

You are likely not going to post photos of your family dinner to Reddit because that would be extremely boring to anyone not within your family or friends circle. On the other hand, it wouldn't make much sense to post a link to a blog post on a complicated programming or science topic to Facebook and expect to get much discussion on it unless you happen to be friends with lots of people knowledgeable on that topic. They are two different platforms with different purposes. Unless one or the other drastically changes their entire interface and function, I doubt one will compete with the other any time soon.