[cschep]

Which they absolutely would not have done if Zuck didn't start it, get funding, pay them handsomely, and tell them exactly what to do.

I'm sure that Zuck is worthy of huge amounts of criticism but this is a really silly response.

[guelo]

There were dozens of social networking companies at the time that FB was founded. If Zuck didn't exist those same or similar workers would have been building a similar product for whichever other company won the monopoly-ish social media market.