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by worik 562 days ago
I find it sad, but am also glad, because Zuck and their colleagues came very close to owning Internet communications.

They still rule the roost with that spyware WhatsApp

But at the point they were connecting people as a priority Facebook was an astoundingly good product.

Their greed ruined it (much like Google - it is a characteristic of public corporations in the capitalist system I guess).

If they could have been happy with simply being astoundingly rich they could have built on what they had, developing an ecosystem of software, and developers, to aid in connecting all the people of the world.

Instead they got deep into ad tech. Squeezed every dollar. Ruined it.

Mēh! Better off are we now!