I think thats overgeneralizing a little, many of the problems they are solving on the back end are not simple, give them a little credit for scaling from nothin

I think thats overgeneralizing a little, many of the problems they are solving on the back end are not simple, give them a little credit for scaling from nothing to the 6th biggest website in the US very smoothly. All the people I know that work there are far from "hobbyist programmers" and they are all damn smart, a fair amount have owned and sold companies before working there. The innovation that comes out of Facebook is not purely technological, but more idealistic. They took stuff that had been done before and uniquely applied in a way that hadn't done before, doesn't that pass as a definition of innovation?