Facebook is 'dead and buried', replaced by simpler networks, study finds

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29. FB has experienced mission creep

When it was first envisioned it had a single mission and succeeded quite well. Its popularity is the evidence of that.

Then sites that wanted to do forums but didn't want the overhead adopted its system. But that system is terrible for doing real, indepth commentary with continuity. So what we end up with is a hafassed threading system without categorizations.

A lot like the WWW...the most fantastic library system in the world without a card catalog and the dewey decimal system (I prefer the LibofCong).

FB is like so muh of what we run into today in our laissez faire society. The functionality that requires a trancendence across individual profit goals is never done. We couldn't do the space program today of our country depended on it.

That also goes for the telephone system, energy, healthcare, etc. I think it's Tiawan where you carry your medical history on a thumbnail in your pocket. Hit by a truck in Arkansas and that thumbnail is just as valid as in Manhattan. Good luck trying to implement that.

Think what the Rural Electrifcation Project accomplished. We can't even get cell service in a lot of areas.

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