Maybe...VK and RenRen are definitively the Facebooks of Russia and China, respectively, but I doubt you'll see widespread adoption of a "Facebook of Senegal" or

Maybe...VK and RenRen are definitively the Facebooks of Russia and China, respectively, but I doubt you'll see widespread adoption of a "Facebook of Senegal" or Kiribati or Ecuador anytime soon. I couldn't even imagine an analogue to Facebook within the West. Personally, I think the distribution is a good thing. It's not as if Facebook is creating better people. It's more likely that social networks are exacerbating biases, and so a global social network only creates an easier subset of people to manipulate. Global capitalism hasn't exactly been a boon to humanity. Cheaper stuff comes at human costs, whether it's sugar or cotton or diamonds or iPhones. If a global institution is to better humanity, I wouldn't bet on it taking the form of a for-profit corporation.