To rephrase what I think the poster's point was: AOL wanted to pretend the rest of the net didn't exist. We've seen where that game plan leads: irrelevance.

To rephrase what I think the poster's point was: AOL wanted to pretend the rest of the net didn't exist. We've seen where that game plan leads: irrelevance. Facebook, contrariwise, is willing to accept the existence of non-Facebook material on the net, even if the long-term plan is to Borg it.