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I just don't understand how Facebook helping you sell stuff faster is a bad thing for you, or for Facebook. What excessive control or monopolistic practice did

• kerkeslager 8y ago
  > I just don't understand how Facebook helping you sell stuff faster is a bad thing for you, or for Facebook. They aren't helping sell things faster. They're forcing me to use their platform if I want to sell things slightly slower to how I used to sell things on Craigslist. It's faster to sell on Facebook now, but it's not as fast as it used to be on Craigslist. > Being better at something because you have a lot of users and a halfway decent UI isn't anti-competitive. They aren't better. If anything, their tooling is inferior to Craigslist's--it's harder to find the things you want on Facebook, and Facebook's seller tools are rudimentary. Facebook has a larger user base because buyers have moved over to Facebook, but the idea that this is an improved experience for anyone is flat wrong. The migration is because Facebook is using their other services to direct people into their marketplace, not because they provide a better marketplace.