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by nathanaldensr 3914 days ago
Exactly. I feel like Facebook is somehow being credited as inventing human communication itself. Why else would people fawn over "a billion users?" To me, a billion users means there are a billion rows in a database table somewhere; that doesn't inherently mean there is significant value.

Ask yourself this: If Facebook were to disappear tomorrow, would the world continue relatively unchanged? I argue that it would.