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Even if Facebook collapses, it doesn't mean it will take the rest of the web down with it. It just means that perhaps a place where you are shooting the breeze
by tytso 14y ago
Even if Facebook collapses, it doesn't mean it will take the rest of the web down with it. It just means that perhaps a place where you are shooting the breeze with your beer-drinking buddies isn't the best place to sell some, perhaps even most, goods and services. If that's the case, and the price for putting an ad on FB decreases, it doesn't following that the price for running an ad on another website will also be lower.
The author making the fundamental mistake of assuming that all web sites are the same, and that's obviously false. Just because Facebook is (in his view) a ad-supported website doesn't mean that it is interchangeable with any other ad-supported website.
- josefonseca 14y ago> Even if Facebook collapses, it doesn't mean it will take the rest of the web down with it. The WWW was here before Facebook. To even raise that possibility shows people completely lack a sense of proportion. Facebook and Google can disappear from the WWW and the WWW will stay there just like it was before these companies came along.
- SideburnsOfDoom 14y agoIf Facebook collapses, sites that do semi-private chat with comments and images among groups of friends will rejoice. So will sites that allow you to create events and invite people to them.