[beaner]

> The real issue is that one company is in a skewed position of power due to a broken marketplace

Nobody seems able to identify what the unfair advantage is.

The truth is that this is the nature of social networks: the successful ones tend towards Monopoly. Why? Because more people attract more people. Access begets access. The value of a network grows with the square of its size [0], and higher-value networks attract more users.

You can't break up a social network without starting to make rules about who can associate with who, which is a fundamentally anti-free position.

The problem is not Facebook. In its absence another would take its place. The "problem" is human nature, and that we were not designed cognitively for the types of networks that technology now enables for us.

We should focus on education, friendship, and real-world experiences. Legal fights against social networks in general or Facebook in specific are futile.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law