Reggie "Facebook itself is not an innovative company."

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IcaroRibeiro said:

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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. 

If this was the case, what problems gaming studios are solving? 

Social networks are useful to connect people. I've found many long-term friends using them, and they are a way to keep in touch with distant friends that I would otherwise love contact with time  

I've even already found a job using social networks. Your claims are short signed, it's definitely an useful tool

Being useful is in no way incompatible with what I said. Your claim about video games is also not exactly accurate, since most video game companies use tech as a mean to deliver something, be it a product or an experience. What you said is like implying we have no use for cinemas, because going to theaters is not solving a particular pain. Or music, as in, why do we need music? Video games fall into the same category, so you need to come with a better example.

Big techs sell the tech in itself or its application. And this pain that I mentioned before is related to the companies of today, like, Uber solved a pain of people that needed to find transportation faster while giving a few others the opportunity to work with said transportation. It solves a problem. Microsoft, through Windows, helped make PC popular. Facebook claims to on this same side of things, but it solves nothing, especially because the people you found (long term friends that you can't find without social media? Really?) would not be discovered if they did not opt to be there on FB, and they could place their names and addresses on the phone list, which already existed decades before FB.