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Facebook goes "non-profit" -> becomes regulated in terms of privacy/earnings -> competing social network springs up -> is able to advertise and boast features t
by 2bitencryption 9y ago
Facebook goes "non-profit" -> becomes regulated in terms of privacy/earnings -> competing social network springs up -> is able to advertise and boast features that the "non-profit public" Facebook cannot have due to cost or regulations -> new social network is now the de-facto Facebook, and you're right where you started.
and this is assuming that the whole "lets beg Mr. Zuck to pretty pretty please stop doing that whole business thing and start serving us for free, we'd appreciate it" thing works out.
- int_19h 9y agoI'm not at all convinced that there are any substantial new features that would overcome the inertia of lock-in (via one's existing connections). I mean, G+ couldn't do it, and Google tried damn hard. If they can't do it at their scale, who can?