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Not even remotely comparable. The vast majority of current Facebook users had no social networking accounts before they signed up for Facebook. Now, Facebook is
by streptomycin 14y ago
Not even remotely comparable. The vast majority of current Facebook users had no social networking accounts before they signed up for Facebook. Now, Facebook is entrenched.
That's not to say it was easy to make Facebook succeed, or that it would be impossible to make a service outcompete Facebook now. But it was certainly far easier to unseat the king back then than it is now.