I was being absolutely sarcastic about Facebook being run by and for the users. G+ and Facebook are both artifacts of their respective owners' lead generation businesses.
Right. That's pretty widely understood at this point. Were you just repeating what's already known, or was there some insightful point that you were trying to make?
It wasn't a very good way of expressing that idea, if so. It makes it appear that the article claims something that it does not, without actually conveying the ideas that it was supposedly intended to.