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They can, but I'd argue that none of those had the pervasiveness of Facebook. Moreso due to timing & mobile adoption, than any actual failing. Facebook's moat
by ethbr0 5y ago
They can, but I'd argue that none of those had the pervasiveness of Facebook. Moreso due to timing & mobile adoption, than any actual failing.
Facebook's moat is that it's the Yellow Pages of social.
It took the web to kill Yellow Pages, not a better phone book. Which is probably why you see FB investing in acquiring social-but-different competitors and researching paradigm shifts.
- pkdpic 5y agoI like that analogy but I'm realizing I have no real understanding of if people saw the yellow pages as a problematic monopoly in any way. I'm sure no where near where facebook is with negative perception but it seems like small businesses at least could have viewed the yellow pages as problematic.
- gnatman 5y agoThey saw it as problematic enough that AT&T was broken up in the 80s.
- jdrc 5y agoyellow pages did not have network effect.