No. Those companies were making bank selling picks and shovels because picks and shovels are great for digging for gold, regardless of whether you actually find

No. Those companies were making bank selling picks and shovels because picks and shovels are great for digging for gold, regardless of whether you actually find any. Tired analogies and ridiculous strawman arguments aside, Facebook and Google are valuable because they have a valuable product in their advertising technology. What and how you use it is an entirely different issue.