[joelrunyon]

> At the end of the day, they're ad-serving time-sucks

I can understand how you could say this about FB, but Twitter seems much more useful as a protocol.

Maybe it's not the best example of a great VC business, but you can't deny that it's changed how people communicate & especially how we get news.

[rtpg]

I'd also like to point out that FB has served a great purpose for me and pretty much all my social circle.

It lets me keep up with people I would _otherwise not bother to talk with_ by seeing what's happening in their lives. It lets me organize events and coordinate with ease. It lets me share things like photos and video (both privately and publicly) super easily

Sure, technically, it's "incremental improvements" on blogs + RSS + email, but only in the same sense that C is an incremental improvement on Brainfuck. It's made a lot of these concepts easy to use for non-nerds on a large scale.

Dismissing Facebook ignores the social impact it's had on a huge amount of people.