[xcombinator]

When a company gets a lot of market, they want to differentiate their products so people stop using the standard and gets locked into their "standard slightly modified".

No no no, It is not an MP3 player(anyone could make an MP3 player), is an Ipod.

No no no, It is not email, email is an standard and we don't want to have to compete with other companies on a levered field, it is the facebook messaging event.

As usual they will make it very easy for people to get in, not so easy to get out.

"I'm intensely jealous of the next generation who will have something like Facebook for their whole lives. They will have the conversational history with the people in their lives all the way back to the beginning: From "hey nice to meet you" to "do you want to get coffee sometime" to "our kids have soccer practice at 6 pm tonight." That's a really cool idea."

I feel scared about that, everything you said(later will come audio and video) in a very specific context and frame, like 10 years ago, could be used against you by other people. Bad things could happen when you can't control it(friends of friends could see that)like you could control on gmail.

[ajays]

"I feel scared about that, everything you said(later will come audio and video) in a very specific context and frame, like 10 years ago, could be used against you by other people."

It seems you don't have a girlfriend... ;-)

Having dispatched of that softie: IMHO, too much history is a bad thing. Sometimes one _needs_ to forget stuff from the past before one can move on.

A prime example of too much history is the Middle East, more specifically, Israel-Palestine.