[aianus]

That's like encountering email in 1994 and dismissing it as a piece of crap because none of your friends have computers or internet access.

[thedufer]

A better analogy is that it's like dismissing the alternatives to email that popped up in the later 90s and dismissing them because even though they were obviously better than email (but not as much so as email over snail mail), no one you knew used them.