Facebook rose to power because they were a better version of Myspace which also appealed to middle aged people a lot more than Myspace did.
Also, it wasn't run by idiots who had no idea what the fuck they were doing.
Facebook was a way to connect with and keep in touch with the whole collection of family members, friends, acquaintances, and old friends/acquaintances, and that understandably appealed to a large segment of the world's population.
Myspace could have done this originally, but they let the place get overrun by bots and spammers, and they allowed user-customized pages, which turned a large portion into an unusable mess.
A Facebook exec even admitted at one point that they only succeeded because Myspace fucked up, and not because of anything smart they did to overtake Myspace.
The poker equiavalent is seeing a fish shooting off at the table, and just playing ABC poker and waiting for him to basically give his chips to you.
Anyway, Facebook got the power, they were too big for anyone to rise up and challenge them, and they decided to abuse that power rather than be good corporate citizens.
And here we are.
Originally Posted by sonatine
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