Why do you want to build a platform for a community ? That s the thing. When I was a kid before facebook we had huge IRC and forum communities, with no ad, dir

Why do you want to build a platform for a community ? That s the thing. When I was a kid before facebook we had huge IRC and forum communities, with no ad, direct contact, true friends you d meet IRL sometimes. I know some who married. Facebook is the opposite of an online community: it takes your existing relationship graph, the one with true deep value you kept secret from the internet before, and milk and milk it for every drop of attention you can give your waking hours to ads. Whatever it takes.