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The cost of entry to creating a Facebook community is zero, whereas it is non-zero to host your own. For example, there are local Pokemon Go, Spartan training,
by dlivingston 8y ago
The cost of entry to creating a Facebook community is zero, whereas it is non-zero to host your own. For example, there are local Pokemon Go, Spartan training, and 'local gossip' communities that simply wouldn't exist if Facebook didn't.
- thinkmassive 8y agoForums existed before Facebook and will continue to exist after Facebook. Just because Facebook was seen as the lowest barrier to entry for many groups doesn’t mean they wouldn’t exist without it.
- perl4ever 8y agoLots of things existed in, say, 1996 that were more or less equivalent to modern things on the internet. But the size of the internet was a tiny, tiny fraction of what it is now, so I think it's very plausible that reinventing the wheel was part of growing it and if we went backwards it might indeed mean most of it would stop existing.