Facebook is different than Yahoo, Google, Microsoft etc, because of it's social aspect. There will be decades upon decades of memories, photos, videos and all t

Facebook is different than Yahoo, Google, Microsoft etc, because of it's social aspect. There will be decades upon decades of memories, photos, videos and all the comments associated with them on fb that most people are not going to want to give up. Today I could switch away from Yahoo to AOL or MSN, Google to Bing and Microsoft Windows to Mac OS X and I wouldn't notice any huge difference. I can't switch away from facebook to another social networking site and have it be of any utility to me - and I can only imagine the dominance of facebook because of this social aspect growing in the years to come. As an aside, the author feels that Microsoft tried to kill itself with all the delays and bugs in Vista, which I would also disagree with. Google, along with a host of other companies, killed Microsoft - because of the talent drain. Once your best and brightest are jumping ship for, as Michael Lewis would call it, the "new new thing", you are pretty much screwed because your product development is going to start going down the tubes.