While there have been some good points brought up here, I think the author misunderstands what the purpose of Facebook is. Facebook is not in the same category

While there have been some good points brought up here, I think the author misunderstands what the purpose of Facebook is. Facebook is not in the same category as Reddit. Social network used to be a very specific category of website, now almost every consumer facing website is a social network. Reddit is a content creation and discussion community, basically a centralized version of the forums and bulletin boards of yesteryear. Facebook is a photo, link, and life sharing network. If I'm sharing pictures of my family and friends, I'm giving up anonymity by default. The whole point of Facebook is to give an online pin board of what is going on in my life, who I am as a person, and what I think and I enjoy. It's the online identity of my human self. Reddit is an open platform for all types of discussion and interaction at a macro scale. What happens on Reddit will rarely if ever affect my actual day to day life. The phrase "hive mind" is all too true when you consider the mass amount of meaningless content there is. It's the brain vomit of millions of people and that's what makes it awesome and interesting. For every thought or idea I have, I can find someone else who agrees with me and someone who doesn't. Saying Facebook should learn from Reddit doesn't make much sense to me. Reddit not a new concept or idea. Historically, social interaction online had always been "anonymous" in one form or another. Facebook was the first truly successful community that did away with usernames and forced people to use their real names. To get a billion people to do that is an incredible feat. In my humble opinion, Reddit is not revolutionary at all. The "moat" around the site/business is not near as big as Facebooks. All it would take for a Reddit killer to emerge is for a site to hit critical mass in terms of content and provide a better more targeted form of curation to the user than subreddits and karma. In contrary, Facebook has built a massive moat. Your friend list, your photo history, your about page, your Facebook connected sites and apps...this is a huge fucking moat. I'm not saying it would be easy for a Reddit killer to surface, I'm just pointing out that it's more likely than a Facebook killer. I think it's important for us to recognize that Reddit's social network is not Twitter's social network which is not Facebook's social network and to understand this when making comparisons between them.