It took a lot of active dislike, and almost hatred, to get enough energy going to field competitors to AT&T. You have to have a zeal and delight in seeing your

It took a lot of active dislike, and almost hatred, to get enough energy going to field competitors to AT&T. You have to have a zeal and delight in seeing your bigger competitor struggle to be able to develop a healthy competitive marketplace where there was a (de facto) monopoly before. AT&T had been around long enough (100 years) to generate that sort of deep-seated loathing. The loathing seems to be there for Facebook, but I don’t know how deep-seated it would be. If it was started, its roots would need to be somewhere outside the Pacific Coast to generate a sense of alienation from “the enemy”.