I think a key difference between AOL and Facebook is that Facebook actually respects the threat of new competitors. if they feel sufficiently threatened, they w

I think a key difference between AOL and Facebook is that Facebook actually respects the threat of new competitors. if they feel sufficiently threatened, they will just buy the company. so Facebook the product could certainly die, but the company probably has enough money at this point to keep buying competitors in its space and profiting from their products.