Reggie "Facebook itself is not an innovative company."

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Spindel said:

Otter said:

He's absolutely right. Beyond it's inception, Facebook hasn't innovated, its just been responsive in acquiring competition. Meta I think is the first bold, owned initiative the company seems to be tackling

Considering (now dead) sites like Lunarstorm offered basically the same functionality as early Facebook before FB was launched (given regional, mainly in Sweden) you can argue that FB wasn’t that inovative even at its inception.

Yeah, and in Brazil Orkut was very successful before FB bulldozed everything.

Reggie is right, and, I'll add, tech companies should thrive in solving problems that people face. What is the problem solved by Facebook? Finding people? Really? We don't actually need a social network in our lives. People just have enjoyed finding similar lines of thinking, and that is actually detrimental because idiots (think Nazi-like ones) were either ashamed to admit what they were or didn't know there were so many of their kind, and now they are not only together, but they are proud to show the world their stupidity.