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by dasil003 5233 days ago
I don't disagree with any of the rest of your comment, but:

> Isn't that just a nice way of saying that Facebook isn't useful?

No it's not—along two axes. First, I should have said "it doesn't solve an obvious problem", it solves many small problems of varying degrees of obviousness to different people. Second, it is not a unique solver of these problems.

Facebook is definitely useful, but it's not a home run in the way the telephone was because communication is no longer a technical problem.