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Congrats to the Lightbox team. Admittedly, I never used Lightbox (nor Instagram for that matter), but it seems like Facebook is really terrified of photo-centr

• bgilroy26 14y ago
  Twitter duplicates a lot of the wall/status part of Facebook, and you'll notice hardly anyone has a social media suite that copies Facebook statuses to Twitter, it's always the other way around. Nobody really cares about Facebook games. The business pages are there for the users, and the users are there to share photos. One of the most attractive things about the HN community is that people understand that the big business opportunities are connected to pre-existing human domains of activity transformed. Facebook has taken the whole activity of bringing a carousel of slides over to your neighbour's house and showing them your trip to Peru and put it under one roof. That is a big deal. On the other hand, just like Googlers always say, "the competition is only a click away". The strength and ease of use of Facebook also derives from digital photography. Any other website can take advantage of how much easier it is to share digital photos and the future competitor will likely enjoy a similar opportunity to scale up because the departure from Facebook will start as a trickle and grow slowly before tipping over in the same nightmare scenario that Mark Zuckerberg awakes from in a cold sweat every night. His destiny is controlled by the 100,000,000 users in aggregate. While there's a great deal of inertia in that many people, you can't deny the flexibility of the Web.